Fiona Rintoul

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CHINA ASSET MANAGEMENT: The new influencer

Better access for foreign investors and new onshore products mark a new stage in the development of China’s asset management market, finds Fiona Rintoul. The...

OPINION: A bloody nose

Are we getting used to seismic political events? It begins to seem so. The ‘no’ result in the Italian referendum on December 4 wasn’t...

US ELECTION: All eyes on the White House

Donald Trump’s victory has fund managers gripping their seats. The only question is ‘what next?’ Fiona Rintoul asks fund managers for their thoughts. Odious. A...

EMERGING MARKETS: Our neighbourhood

Following the FTSE upgrade of Palestine to frontier market status, Fiona Rintoul speaks to Palestinian and Israeli investors who let business rather than politics...

NON-BANK LENDING: Money makes the world go around

Fund managers want to be seen as socially useful. Alternative lending – made so necessary by lower levels of finance from traditional sources –...

TECHNOLOGY: ‘The purest form of alpha’

What are the key spending priorities for asset managers on technology? Fiona Rintoul asks four experts for their thoughts. Cutting costs isn’t as sexy as...

OPINION: Are pensions just ‘legal fraud’?

Being from Glasgow, I am not often shocked. But when I attended a pensions conference in Madrid a number of years ago, I did...

PENSIONS: Building trust with millennials

Getting the young to save for their pensions is difficult when suspicion about charges is rife, finds Fiona Rintoul – even if charges have...

OPINION: Flexible working is the new normal

Last winter, my husband and I decamped to a tiny village on the Isle of Harris where we had bought a house the year...

MILLENNIALS: ‘I want to be different’

Young people’s attitudes and mores are a perennial concern for adults. In its relationship with millennial investors, the funds industry is a baffled grown...

OPINION: Absurdity-related aneurysms

In the departure lounge at Geneva airport this week, I was struck by just how facile the advertisements for Swiss watches have become. “You...

CROWDFUNDING: A great steal

For many small and medium-sized enterprises, crowdfunding platforms have replaced banks as lenders of choice, but could crowdfunding platforms also steal investors from fund...

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