In Luxembourg, they talk about fund management firms “doing it the M&G way” – that is, arriving from the UK to create or expand operations ahead of Brexit.
The potential entry of a big tech firm into the funds market has been described as a ‘game-changer’. It has also been described as ‘game over’.
We have just returned from the Christmas holidays, but many employees receiving their annual pension statements in December would not have been feeling festive.
If, in asset management, 2018 turns out to have followed the same trajectory as 2017 did, it will have been another year in which the big got bigger.
The first half of 2018 saw a more robust securities lending market than in 2017, according to the main industry body, Isla.
This is our end-of-year edition, so one final mention of the B-word. Blockchain’s use in distribution took a step forward in December when Calastone, a fund transaction...
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