Asset management
Buy-side firms doubt SEC initiative will fix bond markets
Despite increased electronic trading, liquidity worsening in some corporate bonds
Asset manager of the year, systematic investing: BlackRock
Risk Awards 2018: Giant manager has in-built advantages, but is also breaking new ground
Credit derivatives house of the year: Goldman Sachs
Risk Awards 2018: US bank’s credit re-organisation opened door to wider client base, new products and some jumbo trades
Fintech start-up of the year: BestX
Risk Awards 2018: Cost analysis service set to expand into rates next year, after transforming forex
Mifid II research unbundling hits Japan’s asset managers
Japanese and European investors may face different payment models for investment research
Front-office backlash: the EU gets tough on research unbundling
Three EU watchdogs – including CNMV and AFM – say front-office content can still be Mifid II research
Acadian ends social media data ties with Microsoft Bing
Quant asset manager says it finds more use in orthodox sources of data
Insurance experts downplay fears about risk margin
BoE paper’s prophesies of lower investment and thinner liquidity are too dramatic, specialists think
FX forwards users drop EU banks over margin rule
Other dealers do not have to collect margin on physically settled forwards
Funds call for delay to SEC’s ‘nebulous’ liquidity rule
Industry groups say monitoring tools are six months from ready
Buy side fuels boom in single-name CDS clearing
Ice single-name CDS volumes double year on year following switch to semi-annual rolls
Non-banks disappointed by Europe’s CRR escape hatch
Proposed alternative prudential regime still doesn’t reflect the true risks of non-banks, say critics
Optimal trading with linear and (small) non-linear costs
Bouchaud et al find the optimal trading strategy for a family of predictive signals in the presence of transaction costs
Risk Chartis Market Report: Buy-side risk management technology
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Buy side must clear hurdles to revive CDS liquidity
Some firms forced to watch from sidelines as voluntary clearing of single-name CDSs takes off
Invest on the edges to avoid contagion, research suggests
Loosely connected assets are better protected against market crashes
Relief for EU money market funds on liquidity buffers
Final compromise regulation not expected to trigger large fund reallocations
Industry at the crossroads: Facing up to disruption and digitisation
Sponsored Q&A: Custody Risk Global Awards 2016 | Multifonds
Flylets and fixed-income portfolio risk management
Sponsored Q&A: Buy-Side Awards 2016 | Tudor Investment Corporation
De-risking pension funds across the board
Sponsored Q&A: Buy-Side Awards 2016 | Prudential Financial Inc
ESG trends: Casting the net wide and deep
Sponsored Q&A: Buy-Side Awards 2016 | Conning
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
Great expectations: The pensions market in 2017
Sponsored Q&A: Buy-Side Awards 2016 | Rothesay Life
How risk managers should fix tracking error volatility and value-at-risk constraints in asset management
In this paper, the author determines an optimal value for a set of limits composed of the lower limit on TEV, the upper limit on TEV and the upper limit on VaR.