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Investment Week | 19 Aug 2011

If you are running an asset management business, probably about the worst thing that can happen to you is finding out your star fund manager has been fiddling his performance figures.

A nudge in the right direction

You have probably heard of the ‘nudge’ concept.

Investment Week | 12 Aug 2011

Consolidate to accumulate

The predictions of consolidation within the asset management industry come and go with the economic cycles and stock market volatility.

Investment Week | 08 Aug 2011

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A question of trust

The FSA’s ‘dawn raid’ on the premises of Castlestone Management two weeks ago was a gift to journalists looking for a strong headline.

Investment Week | 29 Jul 2011

A sound(bite) called Malice

‘The public wants what the public gets’, sang the prime minister’s favourite group The Jam three decades ago, in a tirade against press barons and human apathy.

Investment Week | 22 Jul 2011

The new wave of democracy

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the start of a two-decade bull run in emerging European equities. The twin forces of a desire for democracy and basic living standards helped bring down the symbol of Communist repression.

Investment Week | 15 Jul 2011

Why the industry needs awards

Yesterday saw the 16th annual Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year Awards, with the normal array of plaudits and criticisms that go with such events.

Investment Week | 08 Jul 2011

The mortgage of retirement

The financial adviser Arthur Childs, of Surrey-based Arch Financial Planning, likened a pension to a kitchen in a recent note to his clients, which is a novel and more accessible way of describing them to the average person who is not embroiled in the nitty gritty of the industry.

Investment Week | 01 Jul 2011

Unravelling of the crunch

In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, American economist Leigh Skene addressed a lunch organised by Investment Week for family offices and their advisers.

Investment Week | 24 Jun 2011

Long live pensions

The news a number of public sector unions are balloting their membership for strike action over reforms to pension schemes will see the coalition government face its first serious test of resolve, and importantly its first significant foray into major pensions policy.

Investment Week | 17 Jun 2011

Break out the common sense

The fund management industry is doing its best to dig the IMA out of the rather embarrassing hole it constructed for itself with its alphabet approach to the Managed sectors. At last, common sense is in danger of breaking out.

Investment Week | 10 Jun 2011

A view to a skill

The debate about how quantifiable the skill of active managers is has been reignited again by research from Inalytics, the specialist manager evaluation firm, which concludes fund managers with no significant skill in stockpicking have still been able to outperform the market.

Investment Week | 27 May 2011

UK regulation is the enemy of invention

Innovation and competition are at the heart of the UK’s vibrant and competitive fund management industry, which is second only to the US.

Investment Week | 20 May 2011

The hedgehog vs the fox

The economist John Kay in his book Obliquity relates the famous essay by Isaiah Berlin about the hedgehog and the fox in the context of financial markets.

Investment Week | 13 May 2011

Far from the madding crowds

The reaction of the major financial markets to the death of Osama Bin Laden shows the disparity between those who look forward and those who look back.

Investment Week | 06 May 2011

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