All Securities Services articles – Page 66
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Play your cards to best advantage
Securities lending is a means for pension funds to make their assets work harder. On this page, Rachel Oliver looks at how some pension funds are exploiting the market. Opposite, Mark Faulkner examines the options for those testing the water. On subsequent pages, John Lappin talks to the borrowers and ...
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The benchmarking debate: A complex problem
It is widely agreed that a reasonable and consistently applied method of evaluating securities lending performance would benefit both lending clients and their agents. But significant differences of opinion over the best way to establish objective performance measurement criteria have developed within the industry. The approach most commonly proposed is ...
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The benchmarking debate: An indispensable tool
At Barclays Global Investors we have supported the efforts of Robert Morris Associates (RMA) in the US in creating a benchmark for performance measurement in securities lending. We believe open and active communication between lending agents and beneficial owners is long overdue. A benchmark provides an important framework within which ...
