Asset management
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.
Corporate statement: Commerzbank China Volatility Target Fund
Commerzbank China Volatility Target Fund
Mean reversion pays, but costs
Mean reversion pays, but costs
Lookback
Lookback
ECM appoints lead investment grade analyst
ECM appoints lead investment grade analyst
BNY Mellon Asset Management Asia chief Jiang relocates to US to run ETF unit
BNY Mellon asset management's Asia Pacific head has quit to run ETF business, Mellon Capital, in San Francisco. But the US bank says Asia remains a strategic priority for the group as business in the region is growing at four times the rate of the US
Coming inflation means UK pension funds should expand equity allocation
QE2 will spur above target inflation in 2011 and low real yields mean pension funds should look to shares
Hong Kong's SFC hands lifetime ban to jailed asset manager
Hong Kong managing director of Crown Asset Management banned from industry for life
No quick fix for fiduciaries on asset valuations
Fiduciary failings
Insurers weigh the pros and cons of total return swaps
Many happy returns