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MIFI: Taking the pulse of MIFID

Fiona Rintoul, editorial director of Funds Europe, recently chaired a panel to try to gauge the effect of MiFID on asset management in the...

CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT: Clearing the way

Europe’s cumbersome clearing and settlement process is still some way off the sleek US model, finds Angelique Ruzicka, despite efforts to develop it Asset managers...

ASSET SERVICING: The see-saw effect

The credit crunch has seen the fortunes of asset managers fall, while custodians’ financial results have risen. Rather than be irked by this, Nick...

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...

RISK MANAGEMENT: Repackaging strategies

In the fifth and final instalment in a series of articles on risk management techniques in asset management, Noël Amenc and Lionel Martellini look...

CUSTODY: A whole new ball game

The role of the custodian today is far more complex than it was, but are clients paying them too much? By Angelique Ruzicka Finding the...

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...

MIFID: The legal challenge

With the arrival of MiFID, it is important for managers to be clear as to the basis on which their brokers are dealing with...

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...

TRADING TECHNOLOGY: Buying time

Industry research shows that buy-side trading is undergoing significant changes that warrant comprehensive overhauls of fund managers’ technology infrastructure. Nicholas Pratt talks to DnB...

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