Asset management
Video: Schroders HK chief bullish on development of offshore RMB bond market
Lieven Debruyne, chief executive of Schroder Investment Management (Hong Kong), is eyeing up opportunities in the dim sum bond market
Block trade allocations: FCMs and CCPs prepare for new regime
Block around the clock
Market-consistent equity risk premiums
The capital asset pricing model used to determine excess return for a given risk level and allocate assets typically uses historical data, which can be a poor predictor of risk. By adapting the model to be consistent with market-implied distributions,…
Falling coverage ratios will hamper Dutch pension funds’ buy-out efforts, warns ABN Amro
ABN Amro predicts half of Dutch company pension funds will shift assets to insured schemes
Asset Manager of the Year: Barclays Capital Fund Solutions
Asia Risk Awards 2011
Market-consistent equity risk premiums
Market-consistent equity risk premiums
Market volatility spurs interest in tail-risk management strategies
The sting in the tail
Hellman & Friedman to buy OpenLink
New-York-based commodity software firm OpenLink has announced its owners The Carlyle Group will sell it to a US private equity firm
Marking systemic portfolio risk with the Merton model
Marking systemic portfolio risk with the Merton model
Video: Birla Sun Life’s Rama Vasantharajan on risk and regulation
Birla Sun Life’s Rama Vasantharajan believes regulation plays a critical role in preventing financial institutions from collapsing. She also discusses enhanced risk management after the global financial crisis as well as the dangers of systemic risk…
VIDEO: Custody Risk discusses the alternative funds industry in Luxembourg with ALFI
Melanie White speaks to Charles Muller, deputy director general for the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (Alfi).
When ‘bad’ assets aren’t bad – Caveat Lector column
Bargain hunt
HSBC Global Asset Management appoints new Asia CIO
Bill Maldonado, who was a derivatives portfolio manager in the 1990s, is transferring from London to become chief investment officer for HSBC Global Asset Management in Asia
Unconstrained bond funds gain momentum as investors turn away from benchmarks
Asset managers have reported demand from clients for so-called unconstrained bond strategies; freeing them from the rigidity of managing to benchmark bond indexes. Credit talked to five leading investment firms to get their take on the unconstrained…
Marking systemic portfolio risk with the Merton model
Marking systemic portfolio risk with the Merton model
Buy-side firms urged to avoid stampede to CCPs
Panel participants encourage buy-side firms to engage with CCPs early to avoid a last-minute rush
BNY Mellon names Alan Harden as first CEO for Asia-Pacific
BNY Mellon Asset Management has hired Alan Harden from ING Investment Management as its first chief executive for the Asia-Pacific region.
BarCap offers medium-term volatility in Ucits III form
BarCap offers medium-term volatility in Ucits III form
Offshore renminbi bonds offer value: Cecilia Chan interview
In conversation with...Cecilia Chan
Fab news for Tikehau
Fab news for Tikehau
UK FSA hits FX broker with £85,750 fine
Regulator says ActivTrades failed to properly segregate clients' funds from its own
HSBC names Conxicoeur global head of insurance at asset management arm
HSBC Global Asset Management has named Patrice Conxicoeur as global head of insurance coverage, and Julie Koo as head of institutional business Asia-Pacific. The moves come as part of a wider reorganisation of the unit.
The best of Highbreed
The best of Highbreed
Société Générale lists first actively managed ETN
Société Générale has partnered with asset manager Parkstone to develop an ETN based on an actively managed strategy, the first in a planned suite of ETNs from the bank.