Asset management
Niche services growing in forex prime brokerage – RBS
Competing purely on price no longer enough
High securities borrowing costs limit China hedging options
Recent falls on China's stock markets highlight the need for hedging tools – but these remain limited
Banks' NDF withdrawal hits emerging markets currency trading
Banks pull back from warehousing risk ahead of Volcker rule completion
Evolving reporting/valuations in $2.8trn fund admin survey
National regulator AIFMD validation checks said to be neither uniform nor consistent
Small schemes face shut-out if pension buy-ins surge
Growing demand strengthens position of insurers
'Dark age' hedge funds have antique fees, says Albourne’s Ruddick
New boss at consultant, John Claisse, to focus on liquid alts research
Insurance one of the last ‘great opportunities' for investors
Attractive returns to be found in reinsurance risk via insurance-linked securities
Korea insurers increase risk to counter falling interest rates
Loose monetary policy leaves firms with no option but to buy overseas assets
Profile: Aviva's capital planning after Friends Life takeover
Capital management director Marcus Bowser explains UK insurer's aims
Omni reaps reward of expansion into real estate lending
Omni Secured Lending Fund wins most innovative hedge fund
Ucits VI threatens derivatives in alternatives funds, says Candriam
Sixth iteration of directive could pose danger to portfolio risk management
Demand for mortality bonds offers chance to de-risk
Insurers underusing ILS as a way to manage exposures, say experts
Chenavari exploiting opportunities in energy, Asia and liquid alts
Credit player launches Ucits European vehicle and eyes '40 Act funds
Bond-CDS basis trades have 'stopped working', hedge funds say
Arbitrageurs have exited trades, leaving basis structurally higher
DTCC's Abel flags three hurdles to US shift to T+2
Abel gives his thoughts on T+2 ISC's white paper and proposed timeline
Quant fund approaches need refining in China market
Rich pickings are available but market fundamentals differ from Europe and the US
Family offices need professionals, says PHF Capital's Fletcher
Investment veteran decries managers who aren't ‘real investment professionals'
Central banks must be 'market-makers of last resort' – IMF
Monetary policy and regulation have amplified illiquidity, says IMF official
Investors want to know logic behind machine learning
Big data tools a hard sell without clear explanations, says Winton researcher
MetLife states case ahead of Sifi court hearing
NAIC agrees with insurer, criticises FSOC reasoning
Emerging markets domestic focus rewards Aperios
But fund not envisaged to grow larger than $500 million
CME-LCH basis to persist, say dealers
Banks not convinced by CME plans to lure dealers from LCH.Clearnet
Flawed reliance on VAR a systemic risk for insurers
Solvency II has its weaknesses, says writer and consultant René Doff