Ireland is working to expand the talent pool available to the country’s €4 trillion funds industry, says Pat Lardner of Irish Funds.
Ireland is working to expand the talent pool available to the country’s €4 trillion funds industry, says Pat Lardner of Irish Funds.
Asset managers and fund boards grapple with the impact of climate risks on investments in their funds. However, things move quickly. Alongside awareness of biodiversity loss and the risk it poses, nature is another important risk that must also be considered.
While cryptocurrencies forge onwards, access for investors who prefer to invest through regulated vehicles remains muted. A wait-and-see stance by regulators lies at the centre of this, finds Nicholas Pratt.
An industry standard for identifying derivatives trades could be applied to cash securities in Europe. The move would help make a greatly fragmented market more efficient and cut down on costs, says Matthew Johnson, director, digital platform management & industry relations at Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.
The recent amendments to Luxembourg’s 2004 securitisation law mean that active management of securitisation vehicles linked to bonds, loans and other debt instruments will now be allowed.
With investors allocating greater sums to private assets, we ask our panel of specialist fund administrators in Luxembourg about the great weight of institutional capital said to be heading their way.
Despite the shelling of Kyiv and her subsequent flee from that city, Anastasiia Gavryliuk of the Ukrainian Association of Investment Business (UAIB) describes the first few days of the war and conveys her resolute confidence in the Ukrainian people’s resistance. This was sent to Funds Europe on the afternoon of Friday, March 4.
Kate Webber, Lead Product Manager, Fund Services at Northern Trust talks about the digital transformation taking place in the funds industry, and the challenges for asset managers of moving away from legacy technology systems to optimise their data use.
At a time of exponential change in society and technology, it is difficult for people and businesses to orientate themselves. This is even true of university professors that are experts in the relevant fields, acknowledges Professor Deeph Chana of Imperial College, London.
There is a broadly equal split within the asset management industry as to whether the ongoing mergers and acquisitions among firms is good for the market, suggests a recently published survey.
