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Investors warm to quant tools to gauge political risk
Many funds have lost confidence in traditional ways of measuring political risk
Making the alternative a reality
Quant firms will have to adapt to prosper in the new datasets environment
Asset manager of the year, systematic investing: BlackRock
Risk Awards 2018: Giant manager has in-built advantages, but is also breaking new ground
ETFs under scrutiny over liquidity risk
Secondary market trading in funds could freeze up in times of stress, supervisors fear
Pimco calls for urgency on Libor transition
Bond giant wants SOFR rate published “sooner rather than later”; BlackRock raises questions over liquidity
Firms race to apply machine learning to liquidity risk models
As key regulatory deadline looms, US mutual funds are waiting to see if machine learning can enhance liquidity risk models
BlackRock to use machine learning to gauge liquidity risk
Firm close to rolling out new models for redemption risk and market liquidity
BlackRock’s Prager backs unified fixed-income trading concept
A single venue for trading bonds, ETFs and derivatives is 'on the drawing board'
People moves: EBS makes switches in electronic forex
Citadel hires SEC director as general counsel; MUFG’s new leveraged finance head; Nomura changes India chief; and more
The race to find a factor-timing model that works
BlackRock, Man AHL, Research Affiliates and UBS believe they can successfully time risk premia
Index rule change could test bond market liquidity
More than 1,000 bonds will be removed from the Barclays US Agg on April 1
Full up already? Industry divided over smart beta capacity
Research Affiliates argues trading costs will wipe out returns; critics say assumptions overblown
Securities lending by asset managers facing scrutiny
FSB concerns about regulatory arbitrage might prove tricky for the likes of BlackRock
JP Morgan to join Goldman in opening up risk system
Athena platform – built for JP Morgan's traders – could be available to clients in 2018
BlackRock pitching long-short ETF trades as cash alternative
Investors turning to ‘cash-and-carry’ approach using exchange-traded funds
BlackRock’s Novick calls for tiered ETF regulation
Vanilla and exotic products should be treated differently, BlackRock co-founder argues
Buy side targets leverage cap in SEC derivatives plans
AQR says its managed futures fund could suffer larger drawdowns under new rule
CFTC proposal to expand swap data reporting criticised
Increasing the number of reporting fields ‘doesn’t necessarily add a ton of value’, market participants argue
Avoiding crowds: BlackRock leads push to model 'endogenous' risk
A known flaw in conventional risk models is becoming hard to ignore in current markets
Lifetime achievement award: Bennett W Golub
CRO and founding partner has helped grow – and guard – BlackRock for almost three decades
Swing pricing requires changes to '40 Act regime – asset managers
US mutual fund processes need upgrading for SEC proposals to be viable, say asset managers
Best asset manager: BlackRock
BlackRock out in front thanks to network effect
Non-bank FCMs unlikely to fill OTC gap
Capital burdens too great, say clearing specialists
Buy side: central clearing 'a mess' as sell-side dialogue hits 'fever pitch'
Asset managers want to see futurisation of swaps get off the ground in Europe