All Securities Services articles – Page 38
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Features
Pension schemes - controlling the corporate risk
The ACT is just one of many professional bodies in the investment and finance area, but it sets particularly high standards in its efforts to educate its members. This booklet (fewer than 100 sides of A5, plus a bibliography and glossary) is the latest in their series; it brings together ...
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Good decisions need freedom
Continental European pension fund managers have more confidence in their pension fund boards and investment committees than UK counterparts have in their trustees. This was one of the findings to emerge from the Global Asset Study conference organised by benefits consultants Watson Wyatt in Brussels last month. In an electronic ...
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Front-to-back office systems
Pension funds and asset managers are under pressure to diversify their investments to meet growth targets, while the choice of financial instruments available to them grows ever wider and more complex, as does the range of markets across the globe, including a growing number of online trading platforms. Investors need ...
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Investors behaving badly
Most of us who have been taught finance over the past 30 years have been have been schooled in a body of ideas known as ‘modern’ finance theory. This posits that investors are hard to fool and make decisions in a highly rational manner as they go about maximising their ...
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Survival of the fittest
Currency trading is undergoing a transformation. A growing number of online platforms offer investors a range of options in terms of who they trade with, how they connect, the size of deals they will accept and so on. Some have been set up by the sell side to create a ...
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New tenants in the house of cards
Hunker down for a chat with a custodian these days and, sure as apples is apples, soon enough the conversation will turn to outsourcing. To be fair, custodians can be forgiven for getting somewhat over-excited, given that they spent most of the latter part of the 1990s talking up the ...
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Special Report
A question of competency
“Capabilities are really high, skills and competencies are quite good.” This is the outcome of an independently commissioned survey by consultants Watson Wyatt into decision-making and pension fund governance in the UK. As Professor Andrew Kakabadse from the Cranfield School of Management, who led the research, told those attending a ...
