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Managing Assets Across the Globe: Rethinking Your Operating Model

Northern Trust | Nov 22, 2019

As industry pressures grow, how can investment managers continue to deliver value – and achieve Operational Alpha®?

A new phase of outsourcing: transformational times for asset management?

Northern Trust | Jul 12, 2019

As the industry addresses these challenges and opportunities, asset managers are increasingly outsourcing their non-core functions – in what is effectively a ‘third wave’ of outsourcing.

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Making Waves – The Power of Private Capital

Private funds can drive the next wave of sustainable finance. Tim Hames outlines some of the key learnings from Guernsey’s 2020 Sustainable Finance Week.

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Watch this live webinar where Northern Trust's Gary Paulin discusses, among other things, how firms – large and small – have come to see outsourced trading as a better way of doing things.

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Tabula hires from BlackRock for German push

ETF provider Tabula Investment Management has hired former BlackRock man David Schnautz to target clients in the German-speaking market.

JP Morgan digitises custody process with fintech

JP Morgan has adopted a fintech platform to digitise processes for clients that open custody accounts.

UBS AM launches climate aware strategies

UBS Asset Management has unveiled a cross-asset suite of five “Climate Aware” strategies.

Seven firms hiring through Covid-19 period

Fear of job losses may hang heavily in the air, but some firms in asset management and asset servicing have nevertheless appointed people to newly created positions through the Covid-19 period of uncertainty.

Four funds targeting the Japanese stock market

The Japanese stock market was the worst performing equity sector in July, but after a bumpy year the country’s fortunes appear to be on the turn.

The Future of ESG is Now

Recent events have tested the resilience and sustainability of firms across all industries around the world. Is your portfolio driving alpha and driving change?

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Private equity: Where are the bargains?

With global dry powder at a record $1.5 trillion, is the Covid crisis simply an opportunity for private equity firms to snap up firms on the cheap, or will the decade-long rise of private equity in Europe finally start to slow? By Mark Latham.

Specialist fund administrators directory 2020: Covid-19, private equity and liquidity

We present a directory of specialist administrators that took part in Funds Europe’s latest survey and ask senior executives about their experiences of the coronavirus pandemic.

Real estate and Covid-19: 'The office is not dead yet'

Covid-19 has turned the world upside-down – but even though more people are working from home, it does not necessarily signal the death of the office. Alex Rolandi reports.

Fund governance: An exhaustive look under the bonnet

SVM Asset Management believes its response to the FCA's new Assessment of Value regime exceeded basic requirements. Bob Currie talks to the firm’s founder, independent directors and certain staff to find out how.

Fund charges: The latest assault on fees

Recently, Esma said funds were overcharging retail investors and urged more consistency on fees across the EU. What will this mean for UK asset managers once the Brexit transition is over? Alex Rolandi reports.