Previous Top 500 Asset Managers reports – Page 6
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Top 400: Productivity - Improving the wider economy
The asset management industry should focus more on long-term value creation, says Andrew Ninian
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Top 400: Investor Trust - Overcoming the trust deficit
Paul Smith argues that investment managers have a responsibility to be good fiduciary managers and ethical participants in the financial markets
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Germany: Sector funds still controversial
Well over a decade after the introduction of Pensionsfonds and the Riester-Pension, Germany is weighing up significant change to boost coverage
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Top 400 Asset Managers 2015: Global assets top €50trn
Once again, IPE surveyed over 400 managers for this year’s study, canvassing end-2014 data in most cases. The results give a broad overview of the global asset management sector, with granular depth on European managers and institutional business
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Top 400: Investing for the future
Changing institutional investor thinking has profound implications for asset managers. Here, eight leading figures from six international organisations outline progress made on an initiative to realign institutional investment with long-term goals
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Top 400: Disruptive change - an end to the innovator’s dilemma?
The combination of technology and innovation like exchange-traded funds looks set to change some aspects of the asset management value chain, according to Amin Rajan and Subhas Sen
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Top 400: A better deal on fees
Fee structures are imperfect and may be poor value. Nick Sykes outlines ways they could be improved for institutional investors and investment managers
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Top 400: Managing talent in a new world
Tim Wright says agility and innovation will be crucial to attracting and retaining key personnel in the asset management industry
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Top 400: The fee music’s still playing – for now
The institutionalisation of European asset management and changing investor fundamentals could limit the future profitability of the asset management industry, says Alastair Sewell
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Top 400: Multi-asset – in search of opportunities
A complex and changing pensions market means responsiveness is key for asset managers, say Nigel Birch and Will Mayne
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Top 400: New perspective on equity strategies
Investors are waking up to the advantages of using equity strategies in portfolio construction to capture illiquidity, skill and style premia, according to Stuart Gray
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Top 400: Mass market – a brave new world
Andy Masters and Richard Clarke argue that asset managers need to be more focused on the end consumer and develop a range of products suitable for multi-phased retirement
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Top 400: Time for compulsory stewardship
Asset owners and investment managers should be made to disclose their portfolio turnover and how they vote their proxies, according to Raj Thamotheram and Matthew Taylor
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Top 400: Global assets up 8.9% in 2013
M&A has featured highly in asset management in recent years. Until now, this has largely been dictated by external circumstances, such as bank parent companies seeking to increase capital adequacy or to abide by competition regulations.
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Top 400: The essential C-word in investment management
Mitesh Sheth defines 10 dimensions of an undervalued factor in investment management
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Top 400: Not so hasty: Keeping a manager when the going gets tough
Rick di Mascio argues that the decision about whether to sack an underperforming manager should be one that focuses on process, not just performance numbers
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Top 400: Innovating in a world where winner takes all
A person who moves a mountain starts by taking away a small stone, according to a Chinese saying. This applies to the asset management industry today, say Amin Rajan and Kevin Pleiter
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Top 400: Managers pursue rationalisation
Alastair Sewell and Erwin van Lumich believe that recent transactions are unlikely to herald widespread M&A among European asset managers but that rationalisation will continue
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Top 400: Finance and regulation
Nitin Mehta believes professional bodies and well-run self-regulatory organisations can help buffer the sometimes competing priorities of regulators and the financial industry
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Top 400: The burden of harmony
MIFID II and other European regulations are not as consistent as they seem, says Mike Ginnelly