fixed income

FUND LAUNCHES: high alpha, low cost

Fund launches in the first quarter of the year reflect an effort by the industry to provide diversification and alpha. The launches take place...

ETF PRODUCTFLOW: Flood Warning

Product flow from the ETF sector has reached a torrent. Nick Fitzpatrick talks to investors about their multiple uses and finds one adviser warning...

THIRD-PARTY FUND ADMIN – Round the Clock

Far from slowing down, fund administration is becoming a 24/7 business. Nick Fitzpatrick analyses the Funds Europe 2008 Third-Party Fund Administration Survey and finds...

FIXED INCOME – Getting into Debt

Sub-prime hit bond flows as much as equities. Fiona Rintoul looks at how fixed income fund managers are reacting and finds that they are...

NEWS ANALYSIS: ALPHA Managers predict capacity constraints

Asset managers can expect their concerns about capacity constraints in high-alpha and active funds to increase in 2008. A recent poll of 100 pension...

NEWS ANALYSIS: F&C consolidates Front and Middle office Tech

F&C Asset Management, the UK-listed asset manager with approximately £103 billion (€137bn) of assets under management, has combined most of its front and middle...

COMPANY PROFILE: Growth story

By virtue of the fact Nicholas-Applegate focuses on growth, not value, it managed to escape the worst effects of the sub-prime crisis, suffered by other...

EMERGING EUROPE: Milking the markets

In recent years it has been possible to make very impressive returns by investing in Emerging Europe. However, these opportunities are becoming harder to...

COVER STORY – NOVEMBER 2007: Fully equipped?

As fund managers use ever more complex instruments, some are now selecting prime brokers instead of custodians to service their portfolios. Angelique Ruzicka analyses...

STP: Right here, right now

Christine Senior asks whether funds straight-through processing will ever equal that of equities and bonds The search for the holy grail of immediate delivery and...

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

The tension between urgency and inaction will continue to influence sustainability discussions in 2024, as reflected in the trends report from S&P Global.
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CLOUD DATA PLATFORMS

Luxembourg is one of the world’s premiere centres for cross-border distribution of investment funds. Read our special regional coverage, coinciding with the annual ALFI European Asset Management Conference.
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