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Features
BG picks up $1bn
Edinburgh investment manager Baillie Gifford has been appointed to run approximately $1bn (€934m) in assets for the $5.4bn Vanguard International Growth Fund. Baillie Gifford Overseas, a subsidiary of the asset manager, will manage around 20%-25% of the fund’s portfolio and a similar proportion of the $210m Vanguard Variable Insurance Fund. ...
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DTCC's wake-up call to Europe
Securities settlement in Europe is known to be more costly and inefficient than in the US. These pale into insignificance when compared with the financial assault on investors in European investment funds, again in contrast with their counter parts on the other side of the Atlantic. In the US, the ...
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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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Compare against clients' goals
One good outcome of the stock market plunge of the last few years is that it has exposed ‘relative’ performance as a misleading indicator of financial health. The consultant who says to his client, “good news, your portfolio did better than the market, now please contribute umpty ump million pounds ...
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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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Custodians eye the front office
Portfolio management is a task most often associated with the front office, although this relationship is not exclusive. Certain elements of portfolio management, in particular accounting and administration, have long been the domain of the back office. Today, more so than ever before, the custodian’s role is gradually encroaching on ...
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Every little helps
In a period of low or no returns, ideas for cost-cutting can look as attractive as any investment strategy to hard-pressed pension fund managers. So in this month’s Off the Record we ask managers how they think companies and other organisations can control the costs of their pension plans. The ...
