Nizam Hamid
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Keeping track of users' demands
The world of benchmark indices and index providers has changed significantly over the past few years as investors have required new products and more competitive services. The traditional business of providing pure benchmark indices for asset managers to use as a performance measurement tool has typically ceased to be a ...
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Why sector shifts start to dominate
The past two years of dull market performance have made investors increasingly focus on a number of key issues that most impact portfolio diversification. Although one clear trend has been to minimise benchmark risk, the other area that has grown significantly has been the use of sector allocation as a ...
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Innovative products enliven the market
The major trend in European derivatives has been the degree of innovation in terms of the listed derivatives markets. This ranges from the initiatives into single stock futures as developed by the London International Financial Futures & Options Exchange (Liffe), which include both domestic and a range of European and ...
