All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 11
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Deutsche Asset Management/DWS Group
Deutsche Asset Management set about trying to conquer the world in the 1990s and 2000s. CEOs have come and gone, as have brands. Another rebrand will follow this month’s planned IPO
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Features
Private markets, social impetus
There is a late-stage investment cycle feel in many markets. In private equity, reports of mega-sized fund raisings and buyouts are competing with concerns about high-yield spreads and covenant-light loans
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Janus Henderson Investors
Andrew Formica, co-CEO of Janus Henderson Investors, talks about the benefits and challenges of the recent merger
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Features
Focus on the end goal
Buy and sell side can capitalise by thinking strategically about the focus on long-term invesment
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Special Report
BlackRock: Active transformation
BlackRock’s Mark Wiseman tells IPE how the firm is integrating quant and fundamental active strategies
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Special Report
Risk parity: Renewed vigour
Risk parity strategies have confounded the sceptics in 2017, performing well following mixed performance in previous years
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Features
Norway reduces oil risk
A hallmark of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has been its transparency. But Norway has also felt the need to tread cautiously when it comes to the fund’s investment policy
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Asset Class Reports
Dixon Boardman: Ingeniously simple or a fool’s errand?
Can you replicate hedge fund skill through research and public information? This is a question that Optima Fund Management has asked itself – and answered in an unexpected way
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Interviews
BNP Paribas Asset Management: Marching orders
Frédéric Janbon inherited a complex multi boutique structure in 2015 when he moved from his position as special adviser to the board of BNP Paribas to become chief executive of the asset management business
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Special Report
Credit: The next stage of the cycle
Pension funds have broadened and deepened their exposure to credit since the end of the financial crisis
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Special Report
ETFs: The test is yet to come
With assets already surpassing the $4trn mark, ETFs are an undoubted success in the constellation of asset management products
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Features
Cheer up, it might not happen
Investment committees have been pleasantly surprised by a fairly benign asset growth period from the Trump election onwards
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News
MiFID II update: Fund research costs a sign of alpha, says Amundi CEO
Also: SSGA, Columbia Threadneedle to absorb research costs; DC Thomson invests in research offering
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Features
No DC sugar rush
There is a strong risk that Germany’s pensions reform becomes neither a stunning success nor a stunning failure, but just adds to the complexity of German workplace pensions
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Bain Capital Credit
Bain Capital Credit, an arm of the eponymous private equity house, has come a long way since it was founded in 1998 as Sankaty Advisors
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Special Report
Interview: Gabriella Kindert, NN Investment Partners
“The further away you go from your core zone, the more difficult it gets”
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Interviews
Pictet Asset Management: Fighting proliferation
Product proliferation is a temptation that has become baked into the business model for many asset management, even if it is rarely in the best interest of clients