Nicholas Pratt examines whether the service providers will be able to keep up with the demand for liquid alternatives.
Nicholas Pratt examines whether the service providers will be able to keep up with the demand for liquid alternatives.
Industry bodies are adamant that securities lending by asset managers does not pose a systemic risk to the market. Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at their arguments.
Bringing together funds industry specialists and custody banks that offer lending programmes, Funds Europe discusses recent market developments, including volumes and revenues in the Ucits business.
Martin Gilbert, the chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, talks to Nick Fitzpatrick about his company’s recent acquisitions and how globalisation of the Aberdeen brand came about rather by accident.
Fullgoal Asset Management has appointed Deutsche Bank as custodian and service provider for one of the first Ucits fixed income funds to have a renminbi quota.
Administration and compliance services provider, Elian, has appointed Kerstin Lindgren to its funds depositary team in Luxembourg.
Bruno Prigent, head of Société Générale Securities Services, outlines his firm’s plan to become more integrated and competitive.
Swiss private bank, Lombard Odier, has hired Duncan MacIntyre as its chief executive officer for UK private clients.
State Street is axing 600 staff globally to save $50 million (€45.3 million) as part of a wider cost-saving drive, the firm has said.
Technology is at the heart of the Sibos conference and has the power to transform the funds industry. But are firms throwing their weight behind automation? What use can they make of ‘big data’? We asked a number of experts.
