Fees
Aggregators accuse Sefs of unfair pricing
Bloomberg and Tradeweb charge 'unreasonable’ connectivity fees, two platforms claim
Swaps end-users fear clearing fee and margin hikes
Risk Derivatives Clearing: buy-side firms expect clearing costs to rise
'Dark age' hedge funds have antique fees, says Albourne’s Ruddick
New boss at consultant, John Claisse, to focus on liquid alts research
Prime Capital: hedge fund failings are high fees and false liquidity
Lax due diligence and heroic top-down positions highlighted too
Liquid alts advocated part of hedge fund founder exit strategies
Fees lower but flow diversification raises firm valuations
Hedge funds warned fee ratios still too high
Costs have fallen already, but investors demand better deals
Finra bears down on complex structured products
Topping the regulator's list of priorities for 2014 is ensuring that US brokers make adequate enquiries before offering complex products to retail investors
InfraHedge tops annual MAP survey
Mapping the future
Mixed picture emerges on hedge fund fee structures
Hedge fund management fees on average are rising while incentive fees fall. However, FoHF performance fees are rising as management fees drop, according to a fee structure study by eVestment
Index licensing fees: heading for a fall?
Fee fighters
AQR puts academic theory into practice
Putting theory into practice
Hedge funds benefit from lower prime broker fees
Hedge funds can lock in favourable rates for prime brokerage services as competition forces banks to rethink pricing, says former BlackRock managing director David Geffen who now runs a consultancy
Merchant Capital structured product investors to pay up to £600 as Reyker takes over plan management
Merchant Capital structured products investors are due to be charged hefty fees at product maturity as custodian Reyker Securities takes over as plan manager.
The effect of RDR on UK retail structured products
The RDR effect
The Structured Products IFA Survey 2012
The Structured Products IFA Survey 2012
Trade of the month: the impact of RDR on structured products
Trade of the month: the impact of RDR on structured products
Stripping out commission will transform UK market, says FSA's Woodall
Linda Woodall, head of investments at the UK Financial Services Authority talks about the balance between consumer protection and the need to police financial advisers ahead of the Retail Distribution Review
The FSA's Retail Distribution Review: What price retail advice?
What price advice?
Trade of the month: Secondary pricing and fair value
As with any competitive market, fee levels are influenced to a large degree by the market, since a product cannot normally hide high fees and appear competitive.
Trade of the month: fees, profit and risk in structured products
The success of any structured product issued in the retail market is partly determined by the fee structure, in which fees are generally taken in three ways – first in the commission level paid to the broker or adviser, second in the the fee charged by…
Editor's letter
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