16/01/2012
Competing Beyond Size: Outsourcing Boosts Mid-Size Trust Firms’ Scalability
In today’s environment, as boosting revenues and containing costs becomes more difficult, mid-size trust companies face unique challenges to profitability. Increasingly, many of these firms are discovering that a careful...
21/12/2011
Life Insurance: Reshaping the Product Landscape
The landscape of the life insurance industry is undergoing a dramatic shift, as changes triggered by the financial crisis and demographic change force the industry to innovate. The crisis led to depleted balance sheets, ...
29/11/2011
Client Reporting's New Paradigm: Empowerment, Choice and Transparency for the Investor
In today's information-rich environment, robust reporting is a critical component of sound investment decision-making. For wealth managers, powerful information delivery capabilities represent a key competitive advantage...
21/11/2011
Regulatory Reform of the Derivatives Market: What Investors Should Know, How They Can Prepare
Major changes lie ahead for the global derivatives market with the forthcoming implementation of proposed regulatory frameworks, including the United States’ Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dod...
16/11/2011
Building Investor Confidence: A Guide for Mutual Fund Boards of Directors
In the wake of market disruptions, changing regulations and a weakened global economy, rebuilding investor confidence has become a top priority for the mutual fund industry. Today and moving forward, mutual fund boards o...
09/11/2011
Real Estate: New Opportunities for Investors
The real estate sector faces a fast-evolving environment, driven by the continuing implications of the financial crisis and the emergence of major new global investment opportunities. While there is a strong institutiona...
08/11/2011
Derivatives Servicing: Meeting Regulatory Reform Head On
As regulatory reform progresses in the derivatives market, uncertainties remain for asset owners and managers. What is already clear, however, is that a paradigm shift lies ahead and that investors should take advantage ...
26/10/2011
Aiming High in Asia Pacific
Carol Hall of State Street talks to HFMWEEK about expectations for strong growth in the region, operational and regulatory challenges, and the expanding role of administrators Positive inflows into Asia-Pacific hedge f...
27/09/2011
Private Equity in Asia: A Growing Opportunity
As investments around the world continue their long, slow recovery from the global financial crisis – notwithstanding bumps in the road due to European and US debt crises – private equity in Asia stands out as a particul...
26/09/2011
Focus on Cayman Islands
Changing investor needs and the evolving regulatory framework post-crisis are driving significant change and innovation in the hedge fund space. This wave of change has sparked debate about which hedge fund domiciles wil...