All Strategically Speaking articles – Page 5
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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
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Strategically speaking: La Française
Can mid-sized asset management firms survive in today’s world?
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Strategically speaking: Bain Capital Credit
Bain Capital Credit, an arm of the eponymous private equity house, has come a long way since it was founded in 1998 as Sankaty Advisors
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Pictet Asset Management: Fighting proliferation
Product proliferation is a temptation that has become baked into the business model for many asset management, even if it is rarely in the best interest of clients
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Strategically speaking: Nordea Asset Management
Nordea has always been a multi-centric institution. Created from four entities across the Nordic countries, it straddles geographies and markets by design
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Strategically speaking: ChinaAMC
Asset management is one of the few areas of business where, so far at least, the Chinese have made little global impact. No Chinese firm was even in the top 100 in the 2016 IPE rankings
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Strategically speaking: Lyxor Asset Management
Fiduciary management is a potential solution to the problems of countless pension funds in Europe. Lyxor Asset Management is raising its efforts in this area
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Strategically speaking: Dodge & Cox
For most investment professionals the aftermath of an almighty financial crash would probably not seem like a good time to launch an asset management firm
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Strategically speaking: Asset Management One
With ¥52.75trn (€430bn) in assets under management, Asset Management One is perhaps the largest global asset manager that IPE readers have never heard of
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Strategically speaking: Barings
“An asset manager brand is very important. But, it is not the brand that defines people in the firm, it is the people who will define the brand.” That is the view of Tom Finke, CEO of Barings
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Strategically speaking: Affiliated Managers Group
The business philosophy of AMG is a consistent one: grow revenue and cash earnings per share by taking stakes in best-in-class boutique asset management businesses. Repeat the exercise
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Strategically speaking: TIAA Global Asset Management
TIAA has been on an expansion path in recent years. The organisation is now busy repositioning itself
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Strategically speaking: Union Investment
Union Investment has succeeded in transforming itself into a force in European asset management over the past decade
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Strategically speaking: Aviva Investors
At Standard Life Investments, Euan Munro broke the mould in two ways as the founder of the Global Absolute Return Strategy (GARS) fund
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Strategically speaking: Nikko Asset Management
From a European perspective the story of Japanese finance over the decades seems to be one of dramatic rise followed by spectacular fall
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Strategically speaking: Capabilities for adapting
When Colin Clark, director of the global client group at Standard Life Investments, entered finance in 1980 he could not have predicted he would be part of some dramatic shifts in global asset management
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Strategically speaking: SCOR Investment Partners
It took François de Varenne, CEO of SCOR Global Investments and SCOR Investment Partners, two years to convince the group to hold insurance risk on its own balance sheet
