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Insurers 'must act fast' to succeed in private placement loan market
Efficient committee structure central to investment strategy, Friends Life CIO tells conference
UK insurers recoupon interest rate swaps in bid to enhance yield
Unwinding in-the-money swaps to release cash for investments and collateral management
Banks still battling with sales-driven culture, survey finds
Latest EY risk management survey finds risk culture questions remain
Harding reveals ambitious plans for Winton
David Harding says he has no intention to take Winton Capital Management public. He has ambitious plans to grow the business into a major investment management company as he remains at the helm
CQS plots course for ambitious growth
Building for the future
Overreliance on outsourcing is a growing risk for asset managers
Regulators are turning their attention to reliance on outsourcing – but there may be little that asset managers can do to reverse the trend, even if they wanted to
Tōkum Strategy: Perella Weinberg Partners
Healthy profits
Physical portfolio optimisation – improving margins in a tight market
Corporate statement: Sapient Global Markets
Insurers increase equity exposure despite risk management challenges
Joining the equity rotation
Insurers explore exchange-traded funds to boost yield
Exchange-traded future
Non-linear momentum strategies
Non-linear momentum strategies
Hedge fund AUM hits $2.6 trillion in 2012
Hedge funds finished 2012 in positive territory, according to eVestment. Despite reports of investor dissatisfaction, performance contributed with $116.3 billion increasing overall AUM in 2012.
Turning points: Frédéric Lasserre, Belaco Capital
Recent years have seen an outflow of commodity derivatives talent from banks towards hedge funds and independent traders. This is the path trodden by Frédéric Lasserre, former head of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking’s commodity research…
Insurers to target export finance loans as banks withdraw
Sovereign-guaranteed loans provide yield boost for insurers
Operational risk in the asset management industry
Poor returns have forced asset managers to focus on efficiency - including preventing operational risk losses
OTC Derivatives Clearing Summit Europe: Corporates could be source of eligible assets for clearing
Cash-rich corporates could replace capital-constrained dealers as providers of collateral transformation services, according to one asset manager
The impossibility of DVA replication
The impossibility of DVA replication
Non-linear momentum strategies
Non-linear momentum strategies