All Special Report articles – Page 69
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The unique case of Greece
The tribulations of recent years have turned Greece into a unique case within the euro-zone
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Euro-zone recovery: SME Lending – Affairs of credit
Everyone wants to secure funding for small businesses, which has led to initiatives across Europe designed to take up lending slack where banks have pulled back
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Special ReportRegulatory environment still weighted against Europe's ABS market
The European market for asset-backed securities has ample potential but suffers as a result of an unfavourable regulatory regime
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Top 400: New perspective on equity strategies
Investors are waking up to the advantages of using equity strategies in portfolio construction to capture illiquidity, skill and style premia, according to Stuart Gray
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Top 400: Multi-asset – in search of opportunities
A complex and changing pensions market means responsiveness is key for asset managers, say Nigel Birch and Will Mayne
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Top 400: Disruptive change - an end to the innovator’s dilemma?
The combination of technology and innovation like exchange-traded funds looks set to change some aspects of the asset management value chain, according to Amin Rajan and Subhas Sen
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Top 400: A better deal on fees
Fee structures are imperfect and may be poor value. Nick Sykes outlines ways they could be improved for institutional investors and investment managers
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Top 400: Managing talent in a new world
Tim Wright says agility and innovation will be crucial to attracting and retaining key personnel in the asset management industry
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Top 400: The fee music’s still playing – for now
The institutionalisation of European asset management and changing investor fundamentals could limit the future profitability of the asset management industry, says Alastair Sewell
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Top 400: Time for compulsory stewardship
Asset owners and investment managers should be made to disclose their portfolio turnover and how they vote their proxies, according to Raj Thamotheram and Matthew Taylor
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Top 400: Investing for the future
Changing institutional investor thinking has profound implications for asset managers. Here, eight leading figures from six international organisations outline progress made on an initiative to realign institutional investment with long-term goals
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Top 400: Mass market – a brave new world
Andy Masters and Richard Clarke argue that asset managers need to be more focused on the end consumer and develop a range of products suitable for multi-phased retirement
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Special ReportTop 400 Asset Managers 2015: Global assets top €50trn
Once again, IPE surveyed over 400 managers for this year’s study, canvassing end-2014 data in most cases. The results give a broad overview of the global asset management sector, with granular depth on European managers and institutional business
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The Internet of Things
The technology mega trends of ‘Big Data’, robots and drones, sensors, wireless communications and machine intelligence all come together in the industrial theme that is the ‘Internet of Things’
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Technology: The Third Industrial Revolution
A number of fast-moving technological trends seem to be spreading the importance of ‘tech’ beyond IT and into every corner of our lives and our economy
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Technology: Late-Stage Fundraising
There has been a sudden jump in the number of technology-based companies that have raised equity privately at $1bn-plus valuations, often with no sign of an IPO to come
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Financial Services Technology: Tech transformer
Technology is transforming financial services across the board
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Special ReportThe Technology Sector: Potential in the exponential
The cost of computer processing power has decreased exponentially over recent decades, a trend we are all familiar with when we compare the clunky IBM PCs of the 1980s or 90s with today’s smartphones
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Technology: European Venture Hubs
As London gets pushed into fourth place by Beijing as a venture capital centre, we ask what is required to create Silicon Valley-type hubs in Europe
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Credit: Financial Sector High Yield
Since the financial crisis the high-yield universe has been flooded with bank debt, thanks to downgrades and increasing subordinated issuance
