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Goldman Sachs explores investment adviser sale in retreat from mass market Careful due diligence can mitigate risks associated with Acquisit...

Basically the OCIO (or 'fiduciary') approach to manage institutional portfolios is a move back to what once was popular as the '...

And business in general. The demands from lobbies and interest groups will expand and no action by managers and businesses will be enough t...

Anath Capital acquires Stratton Street  and will integrate the credit fund manager's $500 Mio AuM with its Garraway Capital s...

Not sure that FX trading is such a significant drag on performance. Maybe fund managers should just do less frantic in- and out trading. And...

It is quite amazing that a Hedge Fund - or any Investment Manager - with an AuM just under $12 billion can have a cast of hundreds, more tha...

ETF's have not been really tested in a major market downturn or panic. 2008-09 does not count as amounts involved were still quite small...

Maybe at first sight it appears reasonable to wave any fund management fee if the performance does not match the agreed benchmark. And why n...

Talk of (inevitable?) concentration in the Investment Management universe must lead to the obvious question: is it really inevitable as many...

Bigger does not necessarily mean better. Big fund managers did something right otherwise they would not be big. But that could also be their...

Afraid this is the way things will go - I  remember the time (more than 45 years ago) when Robeco's international flagship fund charged ...

Risk Parity - like Smart Beta or Factor Investing - is old wine in new bottles. A Bull market always needs a rationale to justify the irrati...

Compensation based on share price development? This is contrary to all sensible pay schemes and one of the main contributing factors to exce...

Will 1+30 become the new standard? Relating the higher performance fee to some kind of hurdle rate is the problem. Which rate is suitable? A...

The basic fee of 0.05% in case the funds underperform are quite meagre, will this approach be sustainable? The fee income has to pay for a l...

It is always reassuring that the cast of thousands employed in the recently-established regulatory silos are put to good use. Even if it is ...

Gloom and Doom may work for Marc Faber but it should not overshadow rational analysis of the Hedge Fund Industry.

The idea that the average person should be wholly/predominately responsible to save for his/her retirement is laughable. It may appeal to do...

Does it really make sense to introduce ' Carbon Budgets ' as a constraint on the mandates for Asset Managers? First of all, the ca...

Bureaucrats are hard-pressed to find enough to occupy the enormous number of people working at the UK's regulatory body, the FCA. The ir...