Asset managers need to make additional strides in the ESG arena to prove themselves in the eyes of institutional investors who remain heavily reliant on internal staff to manage sustainable investments.
The asset management industry stands at a critical juncture at the start of 2019. Here are our five top challenges for the industry this year.
October stands out in stock market history owing to the fact that several large market crashes have occurred during the month. And true to form, the month of October 2018 provided us with a new entry to the stock market lexicon: Red October.
Brexit and MiFID II both represent a significant challenge for UK financial advisers. These political and regulatory earthquakes are also intertwined to the extent that Brexit could result in an unravelling of the controversial EU-wide regulation.
James Bond’s favourite car maker, Aston Martin, is planning a £5bn IPO. While Aston Martin may have a licence to thrill, investing in the stock could make for a rough ride given the company’s less-than-solid fundamentals.
All advisers in the UK will be forced to tweak or completely overhaul their remuneration structure post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR), but the more “economical” advice professionals have a much greater …
The only investment certainty over the past four years has been uncertainty. Investors have been taken on an eye-watering, nerve-jangling roller coaster ride with markets rising and falling hither, thither …
Equity markets may have kicked off 2012 with a bumper performance in January but this short term joy fails to mask the fact Britain’s asset management industry faces significant challenges. …
From a literal perspective, investing and gambling have the near same definition; yet one is oft deemed a social ill while the other isn’t. There are estimated 450,000-plus problem gamblers …
All is clearly still not rosy in the world of asset management. Although the industry has had some good runs since the doldrums of 2008, there is still a lot …
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