Northern Trust has expanded its private equity blockchain and deployed legal clauses as smart contracts directly from a digital agreement in what it has called an “industry-first”.
Do quant strategies work, or are their proponents simply slaves to the algorithm? Nick Fitzpatrick investigates.
Infrastructure investment aimed at powering economic growth – and with it, Beijing’s global ambitions – coincides with efforts to open China’s financial sector further to foreign investors. Romil Patel reports from Shanghai.
As China continues to open its financial sector to foreign investors and embed itself ever deeper into the global economy, now is the time to handpick the stocks and investment targets that foreign investors crave, says Jun Li, chief investment officer of Sagard China.
Our panel discussed China’s growth story as it opens its financial markets further to foreign investors, MSCI inclusion in major benchmark indices and the battle for technological supremacy. Chaired by Romil Patel in London.
Technology stocks will continue to dominate the US stock market for at least the next ten years, according to Kames Capital’s Carolyn Bell.
Hani Kablawi heads BNY Mellon’s asset servicing business. Here, he talks to Nicholas Pratt about resetting global custodians’ relationship with fund managers and how data usage is a part of that change.
Digital assets are unlikely to appeal to institutional investors until custody and asset servicing standards begin to mirror those for traditional assets, writes Bob Currie.
Infrastructure investment aimed at powering economic growth – and with it, Beijing’s global ambitions – coincides with efforts to open China’s financial sector further to foreign investors. Romil Patel reports from Shanghai.
Invesco is to launch an exchange traded fund (ETF) that will gain exposure to blockchain by physically investing in businesses that will benefit from the technology, such as financial services companies.
