Terry Arthur and Philip Booth from The Institute of Economic Affairs explore whether Britain actually needs a financial regulator, concluding among other things that the FSA “is simply the wrong model to generate appropriate rules and regulations”.
The $20 billion prize, provides a blueprint for implementing the Cooper Review-proposed SuperStream concept.
This research insight by MSCI, shows global small caps still exhibit distinct characteristics that provide opportunities for portfolio diversification and active management.
The intelligent investor, managing director of Bedlam Asset Management, Jonathan Compton, says will look forward not back. Instead of reporting on the rescue of those countries already defaulting, he believes Belgium could be the next nation to default.
There are two very different schools of thought on how to exit from the economic crisis. Rob Prugue, senior managing director from Lazard Asset Management Asia Pacific, discusses what investors need to understand from these two diverging economic views.
The second paper by AQR examining inflation considerations in institutional asset allocation finds an equal risk-weighted portfolio performs better on average and is less dramatically affected by individual inflation and growth scenarios
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