As we’ve learned from recent financial crises, unpredictable circumstances can cause the liquidity of traded financial instruments to nearly disappear. That lack of liquidity, coupled with the highly...

Amid growing demand from socially conscious investors, asset managers have worked tirelessly over the past decade to create ESG investment vehicles. While the pandemic heightened mainstream interest in ESG,...

Complex Challenges, Straightforward Solutions

In the post-Solvency II world, asset managers with insurance clients are grappling with additional layers of complexity. The regulation not only lays out how insurers need to be capitalized and manage risks...

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...

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.

How many times has your manager come to you and asked a difficult question that they expected you to know off the top of your head? “How many funds hold IBM stock?” or “Which clients use Accountancy ABC as an...

So, here we are, at the beginning of 2018, with the awesome task ahead of getting ready for the start of the industry’s NPORT/NCEN era.