Asset management
October redemptions largest yet for hedge funds
Industry experiencing crisis of negative investor sentiment
The path to compliance: Unwinding the insurance industry's regulatory requirements
Sponsored regulatory forum: BearingPoint
Factor investors wary about rush into value stocks
Buy side warned to stay diversified as quality and low-vol falls from favour
European buy-side firms face clearing crunch
Large buy-side firms will be subject to Europe’s clearing mandate from December 21, but their smaller peers risk being left behind
Eiopa stress test highlights UK reliance on matching adjustment
Tests reveal how unwelcome any watering down of key measure would be
Now in 3D: buy side turning to new liquidity risk metrics
Industry moving away from outdated ways to visualise key risk
Banks dismiss margin rule threat to synthetic prime brokerage
Growth in synthetic financing versus physical sees UBS, ING boost investment in prime brokerage units
Sponsored video: Iain Forrester, Standard Life Investments
Iain Forrester, investment director, insurance solutions at Standard Life investments, considers the risks and advantages of investing in multi-asset funds
Bond ETFs ‘a source of liquidity’ in stress events
ETF volumes jumped after US election, while bond volumes remained constant
Relief for EU money market funds on liquidity buffers
Final compromise regulation not expected to trigger large fund reallocations
Docs shock: how dealers are tackling the VM deadline
Scale and complexity of negotiations raise fears many will be unable to trade from March
Beat equal weighting: a strategy for portfolio optimisation
Yong (Jimmy) Jin and Lie Wang propose an estimation method for optimal portfolio weights under parameter uncertainty
OTC market resisting swap futures threat
Swap futures yet to break out, but backers see margin, accounting and Citadel as tailwinds
Buy-side Awards 2016: The winners
ICI is best pension fund; Rothesay named top insurer; Vanguard wins asset management risk manager award
VM regime threatens explosion of small margin calls
Transfer threshold designed to avoid small payments is unworkable, critics claim
Risk management technology provider of the year: MSCI
Macro risk model offers means to stress test multiple worst-case scenarios
Regulatory reporting technology provider of the year: BearingPoint
With phase one complete, the task for firms is to make Solvency II reporting easier
Performance attribution technology provider of the year: StatPro
Automation key to releasing analysts to focus on high-value tasks
Retail investment product of the year: Invesco
Invesco reaps returns from combining two of investors’ highly prized smart beta factors
ALM technology provider of the year: Numerix
Insurers are learning from banks when managing optionality in new-generation products
Institutional investment product of the year: Nomura
Nomura uses its sell-side infrastructure to offer a cheap, liquid momentum fund
Innovation of the year: AB (Alfa)
New technology has transformed the way AB trades credit securities
Best tech vendor for ESG: Conning
Tech vendor upgrades economic scenario generator for the new normal