All Strategically Speaking articles – Page 4
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Strategically speaking: Montanaro Asset Management
As a Europe-focused small and mid-cap manager, the decision of London-based Montanaro Asset Management to launch its Better World fund, a global impact focused fund after a 27-year track record as a European house, was most certainly a change in strategic direction.
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Strategically speaking: Research Affiliates
Self-described lifelong quant Rob Arnott finds the quantitative-investing industry often guilty of “overhyping and overselling” ideas
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InterviewsCheyne Capital Management: High-impact debt investor
The growth of non-bank lending in Europe is often mentioned as a trend that could radically transform the European economy. This remains to be seen, but if banks gradually give some of their dominance in the lending market, then firms such as Cheyne Capital Management stand to benefit.
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Strategically speaking: Neuberger Berman
This year is a milestone for Neuberger Berman. It marks the 10th anniversary of the re-emergence of the firm as an independent, employee-owned in-vestment manager, as well as the 80th anniversary of its founding
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InterviewsStrategically speaking: Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management
Following the group’s reorganisation, SMTAM’s David Semaya outlines ambitious plans to widen their international expansion
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Strategically speaking: Tages Group
Saying that Tages is an investor in alternative asset management businesses does not really do justice to its eclectic nature
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Strategically speaking: BlackRock Credit
BlackRock is adding to its global private debt capabilities
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Strategically speaking: Allianz Global Investors
The debates over the failures of active managers and parallel growth of passive investment often neglect two important facts
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InterviewsStrategically speaking: FMO Investment Management
Yvonne Bakkum, managing director of FMO Investment Management, is an evangelist for the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) – and even wears a lapel brooch representing them
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InterviewsStrategically speaking: PGIM
David Hunt, the president and CEO of PGIM, draws an analogy between his role as the head of one of the world’s largest asset managers and that of a musical conductor
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Strategically speaking: Alger
The pain of life and death rarely intrudes into the relatively safe world of the financial markets. But life at its most brutal intruded into the workings of Alger’s headquarters in the World Trade Center on 9/11
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Strategically speaking: AXA IM
Half Italian, half Swedish, CEO of a French company but resident in London, Andrea Rossi embodies what he would like his tenure to be remembered for – diversity
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Strategically speaking: Amundi
Dominique Carrel-Billiard joined Amundi in 2016 to head the integration of Pioneer. His unit is tasked with delivering €45bn in net new inflows over the next three years
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Strategically speaking: Redington
When they started out in 2006, Redington’s founders claimed they wanted to “do for pensions what Jamie Oliver has done for school lunches”, referring to the popular British TV chef
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Strategically speaking: Deutsche Asset Management/DWS Group
Deutsche Asset Management set about trying to conquer the world in the 1990s and 2000s. CEOs have come and gone, as have brands. Another rebrand will follow this month’s planned IPO
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Strategically speaking: Janus Henderson Investors
Andrew Formica, co-CEO of Janus Henderson Investors, talks about the benefits and challenges of the recent merger
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Strategically speaking: Natixis Investment Managers
It is a subtle point but important not to miss. Natixis Investment Managers is in plural form. The group is not just an asset manager but an owner of asset managers and the provider of a global distribution platform
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InterviewsBNP Paribas Asset Management: Marching orders
Frédéric Janbon inherited a complex multi boutique structure in 2015 when he moved from his position as special adviser to the board of BNP Paribas to become chief executive of the asset management business
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Strategically speaking: Eastspring
Investment professionals are fond of talking about the power of compound interest but many fail to fully appreciate its implications for Asia
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Strategically speaking: Robeco
Only a few weeks after the 1929 Wall Street crash, a group of seven Rotterdam businessmen set up the Rotterdamsch Beleggings Consortium, later shortened to Robeco
