October 2017

OPINION: Keep trading

Perhaps the most shocking thing about the German election was that we weren’t shocked. The far-right Alternative für Deutschland, founded in 2013, three years before...

DISTRIBUTION/BREXIT: Border guards

Post-brexit, increasing the powers of European watchdogs to police cross-border finance may threaten the asset management industry’s current distribution system. Mark Latham investigates the...

Jean Raby interview: Natixis’ new boss aims for growth in Europe and Asia

Jean Raby, the new head of Natixis Global Asset Management, tells Mark Latham of his plans to turn the group into a truly pan-European operator. Back...

MiFID II: Problem solved?

Firms have been queueing up to announce they will not charge clients for external securities research. But when MiFID II goes live, it will...

ECONOMISTS’ ROUNDTABLE: ‘The crisis has a very long tail’

What do two senior asset management economists and a McKinsey expert think about the world economy now and in the next few decades? Neil Williams...

SMART BETA: A cheap blonde

After a period of outperformance in 2016, Catherine Lafferty asks if the value factor has gone out of fashion. As a factor, value has its...

SPONSORED FEATURE: Smart beta as a core portfolio strategy

Smart Beta aims to increase diversification and improve risk management, whilst seeking to capture new sources of performance. Given the current context, yield-starved institutional investors...

KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER: Background checks

As asset managers face further pressure to carry out checks that used to be left to banks, Know-your-customer processes are industrialising. By Fiona Rintoul. Partly...

PRIVATE EQUITY: A ‘generally normal’ market

Capital is flowing into private equity at a rate not seen for years. Catherine Lafferty asks if this is a worrying sign of a bubble. In...

INSIDE VIEW: No longer an experiment

Infrastructure is still not a mainstream asset class, but the Long Term Infrastructure Investors Association has mapped out a path to acceptability, writes Eugene...

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

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CLOUD DATA PLATFORMS

Luxembourg is one of the world’s premiere centres for cross-border distribution of investment funds. Read our special regional coverage, coinciding with the annual ALFI European Asset Management Conference.
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