All Special Report articles – Page 95
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Special ReportGermany: Kandlbinder 2011
Investor faith in Spezialfonds continues after the highest year of inflows since 1998, writes Till Entzian
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Fiduciary Management: Who’s watching the watchers?
Specialist overseers have a crucial role to play for pension funds using fiduciary managers. But the trustees themselves must watch the watcher, writes Brendan Maton
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Fiduciary Management: What’s wrong and what’s right
It seemed so full of promise, says Peter Kraneveld. But was fiduciary management just a fad? Did it ever get off the ground?
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Fiduciary Management: Opportunity knocks
Asset managers should recognise fiduciary managers as less of a threat and more of an opportunity, says Nigel Birch
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Fiduciary Management: Slow burn
A few early adopters have embraced fiduciary management in the UK. Gill Wadsworth asks whether they were wise to do so
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Pharmas in better health
Although improving, the pharma sector still has social and environmental challenges to address. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Securities Services: Security threat
Iain Morse reports on the avalanche of regulation heading the way of securities lending
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Securities Services: Light me up
The ‘trade at’ rule sparks heated debate about ‘best price’ concepts and the road that equity market trading reforms should take, reports Richard Hemming
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Securities Services: Sourcing global equity liquidity
Equity market fragmentation is a significant challenge to executing large blocks of stock with minimal market impact, writes Edward Pennings. At the same time, it provides an opportunity for those with a firm grasp on navigating this new landscape
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Securities Services: The lowest ebb
Greece’s financial services markets are at rock bottom. Iain Morse assesses the domestic custody market in the face of current tribulations
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Securities Services: Big is becoming beautiful
The traditional, independent boutique hedge fund administrator will feel the pressure of progressive onshoring and regulation, reports Iain Morse
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Securities Services: Fund administrators gear up for change
In a nascent market where there is everything to play for, private equity fund administrators are gearing up for a host of regulatory and market changes, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Securities Services: What’s lacking with infrastructure
Infrastructure can generate high administration costs because of non-standard valuation, benchmarking and performance measurement, finds Emma Cusworth
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Driving forward
Niall Mills discusses the relationship between responsible investment and the inflation-linked income generated by infrastructure assets
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Curbing corruption
Nina Röhrbein reports on how the investment industry is guarding against the recent rise in corporate corruption
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Securities Services: Embrace the information age
Cyril Demaria argues that private equity has everything to win from a more systematic and transparent approach to reporting information W
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Portfolio Construction: A roadmap for portfolio rebalancing
Will Kinlaw and Jay Moore discuss how pension funds can avoid traffic jams, road construction and the associated costs of delays as they get portfolios back on the road to strategic asset allocation weights
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Portfolio Construction: Offensive or defensive?
Kathryn Kaminski argues that the adaptable, liquid,systematic profile of managed futures makes it a more efficient long-term approach to tail risk than insurance-style strategies
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Portfolio Construction: Defensive or offensive?
Jerry Haworth argues that options-based volatility strategies have five ‘killer apps’ that make them better tail-risk hedges than managed futures – as long as you buy them at the right time
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Portfolio Construction: Convexity complexities
Buying absolute return or tail-risk insurance strategies complicates the portfolio rebalancing process. But Martin Steward finds that a solvency management framework can re-impose some objectivity on that process
