State Street adds to APAC ranks with new head of asset manager business
State Street has hired a 20-year asset management veteran who held senior roles with JP Morgan Asset Management and BlackRock for the newly-created role in APAC.
Tag: Asset managers
Fidelity Investments goes live with agency lending platform for asset managers
The move marks the latest development in the securities lending market, as more asset managers seek to lend their holdings to other investors.
Banks to realise up to $25bn in new revenues from private markets, Oliver Wyman report
The findings follows a wave of buy-side firms that have expanded into private markets in response to increasing pressure on performance and fees.
JP Morgan taps top sales exec from BBH for new asset manager servicing role
The move is the first by JP Morgan since the restructure to the securities services business earlier this year.
Custodians buoyed by sharp rise in China’s mutual fund launches
New public mutual fund launches in China totalled $163 billion (RMB 1.07 trillion) in the first quarter of the year.
The art of transformation part two: The custodian view
Asset managers are increasingly turning to providers that can help them leapfrog their own legacy technologies in order to compete for the next five to 20 years.
Asset managers overwhelmingly favour outsourcing data management, finds survey
A new study from BNY Mellon of 200 asset managers found an overwhelming 97% plan to outsource their data management infrastructure.
The art of investment operations transformation part one: The buy-side view
Margin compression, new markets, and COVID-19 has created huge strains for asset managers, forcing them to review their investment operations. What solutions will firms look to turn to as they aim to transform their operations?
State Street opens ETF trading platform to non-custody clients
The custodian said the Fund Connect ETF platform will now be open to support all ETF issuers regardless of their service provider.
The day said to mark the end of greenwashing in Europe
We look at how readiness for Europe’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) has progressed in the build-up to the new rules, and whether this legislation really will lead to the end of so-called ‘greenwashing’.