300 Club urges attitude change to avert pensions and savings crisis
Group is refocusing on asset owners
Competition inquiry has hindered fiduciary managers, report finds
KPMG sees slowdown in fidiciary expansion but ‘may represent a blip rather than lower growth in the long term’
€8.5bn Dutch postal service scheme appoints Kempen as adviser
TKP Investments loses major advisory client as PostNL decides to split advice and implementation
UK roundup: ITV in discussions over contingent asset deal
Plus: DB consolidator appoints service providers ahead of launch; RPMI Railpen reappoints BNY Mellon as custodian
Fiduciary managers: CMA sticks to its guns after data criticism
Competition regulator still finds adverse effects on competition after revisiting data on fiduciary costs
Fiduciary management rule causes confusion for Dutch pension sector
Anton van Nunen argues that proposed law provides for a ‘solution to a non-existent problem’
Dutch parliament wants to limit scope of fiduciary managers
MP says amendment would prohibit supervision of scheme investment policies by fiduciary managers
Accounting roundup: More work needed on ‘too big to fail’ banks
Plus: IASB eyes new pension standard, EU plots financial reporting ‘lab’
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Benchmarking: Redefining investment classes
A major GICS index methodology change seeks to reflect underlying market economics
Liquid Alternatives: The long and the short of it
The long/short liquid alternatives universe is more hetreogenous than some realise
Briefing: How to model a trade war
So how does one model the effect of further tariffs on a portfolio? This article shows how to construct a potential trade-war scenario and analyse the impact on a euro-denominated global multi-asset class portfolio
Chinese Bonds: Too big to ignore?
Recent tax reforms and the expected inclusion in global indices of Chinese sovereign bonds has shone a spotlight on a vast, under-exploited, multi-trillion bond market
Macro Matters: Emerging tensions
Amid all the talk of deglobalisation, certain tenets of the world remain fixed in our minds. Key among these assumptions is the status of the dollar as the global reserve currency.
Government Bonds: Snapback risk alert
The Bank for International Settlements has warned bond yields could suddenly rise – a snapback could rapidly spread between bond markets
Securities Services: Evolutionary pressures rise with new demands
Key challenges facing securities services include margin pressure, regulatory change and technological development
Non-performing Loans: A market in full swing in Europe
A stockpile of nearly €780bn worth of non-performing loans weighs on the European economy
Brexit is no simple break
The implications of the UK’s EU departure will be complex and wide ranging for asset managers
Selection is key in EMD
Anxiety is growing about emerging market debt. US rate rises and the potential for a stronger dollar mean that EMD may be heading for turbulent times
Asset Allocation: Mirages and safe havens
Creeping tensions have appeared in the interbank market that, in the past, sowed the seeds of economic downturns and financial crises
Macro Matters: Populism is far from dead
Few words are as visceral, and yet as ill-defined, as populism. It has become a catch-all phrase for the sense of malaise sweeping the world