LIBOR reform has been on the global agenda since the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a report in 2014, which recommended strengthening the existing major interest rate benchmarks along with the...

The wealth management industry is on a rapid growth trajectory, with AUM projected to increase by as much as 50% between 2020 and 2025, according to the Business Research Company¹. This means there is an...

Portfolio return attribution has long been an important responsibility for asset managers, but it has become substantially more difficult in recent years, especially in the fixed income space. Spurred by...

Connect: Key issues for the global fund industry today

It’s no secret that the 2008 financial crisis served as a major turning point for asset managers and in particular their compliance and regulatory oversight teams.

A derivative is a financial instrument whose price is based entirely on something else. And in the separation between price and the underlying asset, things can get complicated and risky. That’s why – for...

For the past decade, Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) instruments have become an increasingly popular choice for socially conscious investors and buy-side firms.

In July 2020 we participated in a Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) webinar in called “Performance Teams Under Pressure”, where fund and asset management professionals and service providers were asked...

The start of a new year is always an exciting time to look ahead at what can be and to reflect on what has been. Sometimes we are compelled to look beyond the year coming up and instead reflect on more than...

If you work in the US funds space and don’t live under a rock, then you know that this summer the SEC proposed comprehensive changes to the way that fund companies communicate with their shareholders, with...