Asset Management

We had a chance to take a look at the Boston Consulting Group’s annual asset management survey which landed on our desks last week. Each summer the consultancy takes a fairly deep dive into the industry’s overall state of health and reviews its overall…

Last week we published a blog in which we attempted to get to grips with some of the important questions that remain around the unbundling of commission for corporate access and trade execution. A Bloomberg article that came out around the same time…

This is a guest blog post by Dr Nasser Saidi. It originally appeared in CPI Financial

The Saudi Capital Market Authority, under new leadership, has announced that qualified foreign institutions will have access to the Tadawul stock exchange from…

This is a guest post by Josh Ellwel, Partner at ValueStream Labs in New York. The post originally appeared here.

Professional investors are constantly in search of superior investment opportunities, and this of…

A comprehensive paper published by PwC last month entitled ‘ETFs in 2020’ paints a very detailed picture of how the Exchange Traded Fund business is likely to evolve globally over the next five years. According to the analysis, the market will double to $5tn by 2020, and its impact has the potential will…

The cover story from this week’s Economist caught our attention, particularly as it relates to a number of IR themes we have been observing closely. Academic literature* examining the recent track record of US activist investors concludes that…

A number of eye-catching recent statistics have reignited the ongoing debate around active vs. passive investment. Passive funds now account for 35% of all mutual fund assets in the US, up from just 2% 20 years ago. As illustrated in the Financial Times charts…