risk management

FSA watchdogs are getting tougher, and not just with the banks. Fund managers are also affected. But challenges over the...

Activity in securities lending is picking up after last year’s short-selling bans. As lenders return to the market, Nicholas Pratt...

Pension funds use asset-liability management (ALM) to secure payments for retirees. Individual investors could make use of the same techniques,...

New central counterparties in Europe have brought the costs of clearing down. But a relentless price war could lead to...

In 2008 risk management failed. Nicholas Pratt talks to a fund management risk specialist and to consultants to find out...

Financial firms have seen their brands reduced to tatters. Instead of hiding, asset managers must be courageous and visible and...

Fund selectors must focus more on the operational risk of their providers, due mainly to recent events, writes Niklas Tell......

Multi-asset classes and funds of funds have made performance attribution more difficult. Lynn Strongin Dodds finds that advances have been...

Nicholas Pratt looks at how competition is shaking up algorithmic trading and direct market access between older and new exchanges...

When hedge funds were born into the pension scheme world, Gartmore was there ... Gartmore's Jeff Meyer (pictured) and Phil...