Asset management
Physical portfolio optimisation – improving margins in a tight market
Corporate statement: Sapient Global Markets
Insurers increase equity exposure despite risk management challenges
Joining the equity rotation
Insurers explore exchange-traded funds to boost yield
Exchange-traded future
Non-linear momentum strategies
Non-linear momentum strategies
Hedge fund AUM hits $2.6 trillion in 2012
Hedge funds finished 2012 in positive territory, according to eVestment. Despite reports of investor dissatisfaction, performance contributed with $116.3 billion increasing overall AUM in 2012.
Turning points: Frédéric Lasserre, Belaco Capital
Recent years have seen an outflow of commodity derivatives talent from banks towards hedge funds and independent traders. This is the path trodden by Frédéric Lasserre, former head of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking’s commodity research…
Insurers to target export finance loans as banks withdraw
Sovereign-guaranteed loans provide yield boost for insurers
Operational risk in the asset management industry
Poor returns have forced asset managers to focus on efficiency - including preventing operational risk losses
OTC Derivatives Clearing Summit Europe: Corporates could be source of eligible assets for clearing
Cash-rich corporates could replace capital-constrained dealers as providers of collateral transformation services, according to one asset manager
The impossibility of DVA replication
The impossibility of DVA replication
Non-linear momentum strategies
Non-linear momentum strategies
Asset Manager of the Year – State Street Global Advisors
Asia Risk Awards 2012 winner: State Street Global Advisors – Asset Manager of the Year
RIP OTC: Swap futures gaining buy-side fans
RIP OTC: Swap futures gaining buy-side fans
Fat tails via utility-based entropy
Fat tails via utility-based entropy
Sponsored feature: Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Capital management: Looking beyond share buybacks
House of the year: Citi
Structured Products Asia Awards 2012
Energy Risk interview: chief fund manager at Japan's Astmax
Taking the long view
Non-linear mixture of asset return models
Non-linear mixture of asset return models
Legal & General eyes European infrastructure finance bonds
European Investment Bank set to launch project bond pilot scheme in September
Standard Solvency II asset data framework 'at least 12 months' away
Asset managers seek to standardise Solvency II asset data provision, but industry-wide solution presents challenges
Market reaction to price changes and fat-tailed returns
Market reaction to price changes and fat-tailed returns
Insurers urged to be cautious of long-term liquidity swaps
Uncertain regulatory and economic environment increases risks associated with liquidity trades, warns Fitch