Pension funds and other institutional investors are slow to adopt new asset allocation strategies even though a clear majority fear another ‘tail risk’ event will occur in the next 12 months. A survey of 310 large European and US-based investors, commissioned by State Street Global Advisors and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, found that…
‘Big data’ sounds like another self-serving term from the IT department in their life-long quest for more funding. But, dig deeper and it’s worthwhile for even the luddites amongst us to consider the possibilities from the latest major technological trend. JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services, which holds an annual “technology summit”, discussed the topic of…
Asia Pacific is not an homogenous marketplace, with significant regulatory, cultural and structural differences between countries for institutional investors at an operational or transaction level. Steps have been taken in many countries in recent years to alleviate the problems and move to a more level playing field. At the same time, some markets, notably China,…
