Asset management
Changing face of stock-lending and repo
New entrants eyeing opportunities
Basel III transforming securities lending market
New entrants respond to challenges facing primes and lenders
Call for user-owned utilities to lower central clearing cost
But monopoly or duopoly inefficient, BNY Mellon says
Lions' Den Series 2: Advice For The Cubs
Hedge Funds Review and Eurex invited successful candidate Patrick Boyle, Palomar Investments, and hedge fund investor ‘Lion’ Andrew McCaffery, Aberdeen Asset Management, into the studios to speak with Renaud Huck, Eurex Exchange-Deutsche Börse Group.
Ownership data key to picking top fund managers, says Novus
Position sizing manager's most important quality, says study
Switching from UK GAAP unlikely to boost hedge fund profits
Accountants caution UK managers seeking IFRS tax arbitrage
Hedge funds eye actively managed synthetic CDOs
Active deals seen as “the next step” after last year’s revival of static CDOs
UK's FCA warns fund groups over market abuse controls
Most asset managers lack strong safeguards
Jury out on hedge fund take-up of Shanghai-HK Stock Connect
Funds prefer synthetic exposure over cash equities to access China
Volatility and correlation don’t measure what you think
Two ubiquitous risk analytics are easily and often misunderstood
The tensions behind Hong Kong's RBC compromise
Large and small firms take different views of best way forward
DNB takes firm line on matching adjustment repacks
Structuring of assets must remove residual prepayment risk
SEC report reveals chinks in managers' cyber defences
Broker-dealers better prepared than investment advisers
Commission hopes to cut infrastructure charges before 2016
Aggressive timetable outlined for reassessment of infrastructure capital charges
SEC guidelines on insider trading cases under fire
Appeals court reins in SEC over insider trading
Northill: bubble building for direct lending strategies
Cat bonds, high yield, US distressed, infrastructure risky too
Solvency II actuarial role lacks clarity, say critics
Country differences could add expense and create confusion
Equity derivatives in scope for FTT, say experts
But broad-based European tax unlikely to gain quick traction
Risk assessment warning for medium-term investment horizons
Such hedge funds cannot be assessed just by data
Grim repo: clearing touted as saviour for shrinking market
CCPs wary of risks as they vie to launch buy-side repo services
Clash of rules threatens to split Swedish insurers
Firms will face difficult choices when joint insurance-pensions regime ends
Sovereign catastrophe risk transfer in Asia faces barriers
While the region is peril-prone no risk transfer deal has been done at state level
FCA's Annex IV reporting system back up and running
Regulator will be lenient on latecomers as glitches resolved
Conduct risk: put customers first says Eiopa's Bernardino
Regulatory scrutiny will go deeper than point of sale