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GIPS - going for gold
In April 1999 the US Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) sponsored and published the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) to meet the needs of the globalised investment management industry. As financial markets and investment management firms become increasingly global in nature, the variety ...
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'Nothing sacred' in reform
Japan appears to be in a vicious circle right now, with low interest rates, a banking industry burdened by bad loans and moribund financial markets all weighing on the world’s second largest economy. And that’s not to mention a rapidly ageing population. To try to dig its way out of ...
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We have the technology
With the current move from equity to fixed interest sectors, the ability to perform comprehensive risk management on portfolios of fixed interest instruments is now more important than ever before. A major component of this is the ability to perform fixed interest attribution, or to isolate the effects of various ...
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In the twlilight zone
Financial markets are searching for the global economic rebound. Any encouraging signs are greeted with recovery trades in equity and bond markets. However, these trades are just as quickly unwound when the economic news becomes more sombre. Chances are that an erratic global economy will continue to feed market volatility. ...
