Lynn Strongin Dodds

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Technology: Manual processes – Is the end really nigh?

Technologies such as blockchain will be an integral part of securities lending in the years to come – but spending on regulatory reporting requirements...

SECURITIES LENDING: Small but significant

While the additional returns wrought by securities lending may be attractive to many fund managers, there are also challenges to it being accepted. Lynn...

ESG: Virtue and reality

Calls for environmental, social and governance criteria to be injected into smart beta portfolios have prompted a growing number of ESG factor-based indices. Lynn...

ESG: Virtue and reality

Calls for environmental, social and governance criteria to be injected into smart beta portfolios have prompted a growing number of ESG factor-based indices. Lynn...

MULTI-FACTOR INVESTING: An overcrowding problem?

With multi-factor investing on the rise, Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the drivers and learns how factors are being combined. Although multi-factor investing can involve sophisticated...

REGULATION: Shelter from SFTR

There are concerns that a new regulation will reduce the appetite of Ucits funds to lend their assets. Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the...

UCITS FUNDS: The long wait

The securities lending industry continues to push for greater involvement of Ucits funds in securities finance. Lynn Strongin Dodds gives the story so far. Historically,...

CHINA ETFS: Welcome aboard

After years of preparing for the inclusion of china in the MSCI emerging markets index, etf providers are taking things slowly, writes Lynn Strongin...

TECHNOLOGY: Digital’s leading lights

Lynn Strongin Dodds reports on some of the asset management firms blazing a trail in the digital space. While fintech is tipped to revolutionise asset...

RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT: Environmental factors

The rise of smart beta investing coincides with the rise in environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, yet there are only a few products...

FACTOR TIMING: Going contrarian

Buying underperforming investment factors could add additional returns in the longer run, but as with all contrarian investing, it’s difficult to pull off. By...

FINTECH: March of progress

Recent weeks have seen some key, early fintech projects launch in the fund management industry. Lynn Strongin Dodds talks to some of the players. Keeping...

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