Editor's choice
- BlackRock reorganises DC business and names Purvis as ‘CEO’
- Building steadily: what next for infrastructure?
- LGPS infrastructure investment limits set to double
- Mannion quits GSK to join John Lewis
- NEST in talks to join infrastructure platform – EXCLUSIVE
- No place like home: investing in residential property
- PIP begins search for investment managers
- Prevailing odds
- Schemes continue move out of equities
- Seeking returns: insurance companies and the low yield dilemma
- Tesco’s Smith announced as new NAPF chairman
- Unconstrained investing: is freedom from indices the future?
- Watching out for the risk/return trade-off: Zurich Insurance Group’s Tom Rogers
News
Waddingham to become Sheriff of London
Barnett Waddingham founding partner Adrian Waddingham is poised to take a year-long sabbatical to become a Sheriff of London.
LDI market dominated by three providers
Some 90% of the UK liability driven investment (LDI) market is dominated by just three providers, according to research by KPMG.
Features
Opinion
Paying for it
We all like to excel in our chosen field and sometimes people will go to great lengths to do so, including paying for it. Asset managers, it seems, are no different as data from the Thomson Reuters Extel Survey this week revealed they are continuing to allocate a significant sum of their commission pot to brokers who offer them access to senior company executives.
QE acts like a drug…
While 2013 should continue to be constructive for growth and inflation assets, G7 economies are still too vulnerable to be taken fully off their policy steroids. Talk of an imminent US ‘tapering off’ in quantitative easing (QE) is misplaced, as coming data will bear out.
Friday View
June 14 2013
Twitter board
There's a new sheriff in town. Adrian Waddingham to become Sheriff of London - http://t.co/defTkQ3bIu- friday view: Paying for it, QE acts like a drug, Sector distortions in passive, Inflation expectat... - http://t.co/SKRBJIFWAm
- Tesco's Smith announced as NAPF chairman http://t.co/LQi8SWj6SE #pensions
- Alan Pickering to chair PI's portfolio masters conference on income. Investors, there is still time to sign up http://t.co/1w069Ox3tn
- friday view: No one likes a quitter, Making growth assets work harder, China remains challenging but profit... - http://t.co/C9864AGDy8
- Water, water everywhere... How to tap into this essential resource: http://t.co/DvQJ8Sjuhq
- Former IMA chief executive, Richard Saunders, joins Investec board - http://t.co/XlLvhgNhyI
- friday view: Don't force the issue, Beyond traditional asset management, New dawn for pensions - http://t.co/NULX2UBGWO
- Taking the alternative path @seabassc83 talks to Nick Buckmaster at Waltham Forest Pension Fund - http://t.co/vewin15wsK #pensions
- Anton van Nunen's portfolio institutional awards keynote speech: http://t.co/8UFjS56p2L (note: not for the faint-hearted asset manager)
- Blackrock reorganises DC business and names ‘CEO’ - http://t.co/Wmz43UKfCD
- friday view: Solvency abuse, Eurovision Song Contest and risk parity, Global ageing, Reversing QE, Japan 2013 - http://t.co/suQW3QSZRm
- EU shelves Solvency II plans for pensions - http://t.co/vDWFY2JuQj
- FTSE 100 DB schemes could be extinct in under a decade: http://t.co/rNSULRfGC1
- Ladies and gentlemen, the portfolio institutional awards 2013 video: http://t.co/yd57FfYQcE
- friday view: It's not you, it's me, DGFs and hedge funds, The case for gold, A depreciating ... - http://t.co/dzJ2Wkfg3D
- friday view: Taking liberties, Winning is a matter of definition, Groundhog month?, ESG data has ... - http://t.co/2KExKeqK2Y
- @seabassc83 asks has the time come for convertible bonds to shine? http://t.co/tnPYe2SL2E
- friday view: Over-regulated, The impact of QE, Safe havens and the Great Rotation, Dealing with volatility - http://t.co/bbmJ3GMiya
- Here's an insight into the triple-award-winning M&S Pension Scheme's portfolio http://t.co/pE0DCQqMTT #piawards