The financial crisis reshaped the institutional investment landscape which has continued to evolve under the forces of new technologies, new macroeconomic realities and new concepts of ethical investing.
The information needs, consumption habits and expectations of asset managers and investors have undergone a transformation over the past three decades under the relentless tide of technology.
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.
The latest major U-turn saw the UK Government cancel plans to create a secondary annuity market. The volte-face comes on the back of reversals on introducing a flat rate of …
However, any great shift East could prove detrimental to established European jurisdictions. European finance centres are under pressure to improve their propositions as stringent European regulation pushes asset managers to …
Who can blame them? The global market has had the stabilisers on since 2009, courtesy of monetary policy and an encouragement to embrace risk. These are the ideal conditions for …
But this much-maligned mechanism may be about to make something of a comeback as pension funds and other institutional investors turn to ever more esoteric investments, such as synthetic securitisation, …
Although ‘precarious’ is possibly a little too light to describe the situation, others may prefer: ‘impending financial catastrophe and meltdown!’ What’s clear as (fresh) water however is that there’s nothing …
