All Special Report articles – Page 80
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Special Report - Securities Services: Reporting progress
While most counterparties have managed to submit their OTC trades to authorised repositories under new reporting rules, Susan Hinko and David White note that it remains unclear who has traded with whom
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Special Report - Securities Services: Strained relations
A wave of regulation is putting pressure on custodians’ resources across the board – including client relations. Iain Morse notes that R&M’s latest annual Global Custody survey found an unprecedented decline in client satisfaction, with the burden of meeting regulatory requirements seen as the main reason
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Special Report - Securities Services: In transition
The transition management industry has had its knuckles rapped by regulators over recent months. But as Emma Cusworth reports, clients have an obligation to understand the service thoroughly, too
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Special Report - Securities Services: Without a TRACE
Lorraine White urges governments and pension funds to adopt the OECD’s Tax Relief and Compliance Enhancement system (TRACE), in order to introduce a more efficient relief-at-source model to international withholding tax
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Pension Fund Governance: Avoid the bear traps
UK pension funds are increasing governance levels as they implement regulatory guidance on integrated risk management, says Pádraig Floyd. Professional trustees are playing a greater role
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Pension Fund Governance: Board effectiveness: From path dependency to integrative thinking
“One of the curses of our industry is path dependency,” says Keith Ambachtsheer, director emeritus of Toronto’s Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM) and academic director of the Rotman’s Board Effectiveness Programme (BEP) for pension funds.
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Pension Fund Governance: A market in maturity
Fiduciary management has come a long way since its introduction in the Netherlands in 2001. Leen Preesman traces the chequered history that has led to six out of 10 Dutch funds, representing €700bn, embracing various forms of the model
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Pension Fund Governance: Independent thinking
As the world gets more complex, professional independent trustees may come into their own. But, as Lynn Strongin Dodds writes, the choices have to be thoroughly considered, and some potentially serious pitfalls avoided
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Pension Fund Governance: Objectives then implementation
Martin Steward talks to Roger Urwin about the thinking behind Towers Watson’s ‘transformational change’ projects with the world’s leading large institutional investors
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Special ReportTop 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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Liability-Driven Investments: The other 30%
Martin Steward looks at swaptions strategies to cover contingencies around the rump of LDI users’ un-hedged liabilities
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Special ReportTop 400: The essential C-word in investment management
Mitesh Sheth defines 10 dimensions of an undervalued factor in investment management
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Special ReportTop 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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Special ReportTop 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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Special ReportTop 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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Special ReportTop 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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Special ReportTop 400: The burden of harmony
MIFID II and other European regulations are not as consistent as they seem, says Mike Ginnelly
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Special ReportTop 400: Are we doing this right? Are we doing this well?
Catherine Doherty looks at the mechanical and cultural work that investment managers are doing to improve their own businesses
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Special ReportTop 400: Preventive medicine
Risk departments and portfolio managers don’t speak the same language on risk, argues Ian Webster. An integrated approach is essential
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Special ReportTop 400: A painful legacy
Legacy and outdated technologies are costly and are increasingly attracting the attention of regulators, according to Peter Hill
