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Policies, Politics and Portfolios - Managing the Investment Impact of World EventsIt is impossible to pick up a newspaper or click on a news site without confronting today's economic challenges.Headlines broadcast the latest updates on America's slowdown, the Eurozone's meltdown and fiscal downturns of all shapes and sizes. It's clear that politics and policymakers are influencing portfolios in unprecedented ways. Business: Wealth Management
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VIDEO: Policies, Politics and Portfolios - How Investors Can Move Forward In the Midst of UncertaintyDon Heberle, Executive Director, BNY Mellon Wealth Management, takes a close look at how policy and political issues are affecting investors -- and how they could, moving forward. Despite ongoing uncertainty over possible outcomes, Heberle points to key indicators that could help to cast light on future market direction. Author: Don Heberle
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Securities Lending -- Impact of Regulatory Initiatives on Borrower Default IndemnificationIndemnified agency securities lending still serves a vital role by generating income for beneficial owners and supporting financial market liquidity. Nevertheless, although the outcome of many of the regulatory regime changes discussed in this article remains uncertain, the overarching theme to the proposals is a tightening of restrictions affecting agent banks' indemnified securities lending programs. Businesses: Asset Servicing, Collateral Services
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Enhancing U.S. Equity Returns Through a More Balanced Market-Cap Allocation ApproachThe Boston Company looks at how institutional investors can seek higher risk-adjusted returns with a broader range of U.S. equity market-cap exposures that includes small and mid-size companies. Authors: Michael Arends, Joseph Duffy
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Eurozone Solvency Concerns Abate As ECB Buys More TimeStandish says the European Central Bank's recently announced bond purchasing program won't solve structural issues but provides breathing room to work out a roadmap for eventual banking and fiscal union. Author: Thomas Higgins
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Global Reset: Rethinking Investment Approaches for Sovereign InstitutionsBNY Mellon investment professionals discuss new investment models for sovereign institutions in a changing world with a senior sovereign fund advisor. Authors: Cynthia Steer, Rumi Masih, Jack Malvey, Thomas Higgins, Lex Huberts
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Investment Update -- A Swim Meet and the Economy ... A Common ThreadCommentary from Director of Investment Strategy, Jeff Mortimer Author: Jeff Mortimer
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Private Equity Opportunities in the BRICs and BeyondInvestors continue to be powerfully drawn to emerging markets (EM) for return and diversification opportunities, especially as deleveraging challenges persist and weigh down economic recoveries in developed countries. However, some of the most compelling growth sectors in emerging markets, such as services, IT and healthcare, and other sectors linked to domestic consumption, are less accessible through public market equities than through private market opportunities. Author: Ralph Jaeger
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The Business of Investing at U.S. Endowments and FoundationsEndowments and foundations plunged into alternative investing five to seven years ago, and are now working to sort out complex issues related to performance measurement, accounting and transparency in their investments. Custodians are the natural service providers to assist endowments and foundations with this challenge, although the trend towards using external managers has left endowments and foundations with insufficient assets at their custodians to pay for the services they require. How endowments, foundations and their service providers meet the challenge of performance measurement in a time of scarce resources is an open question.
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Prime Custody Comes Into the SpotlightPrime Custody is continuing to gain importance during 2012, the result of continued structural shifts in the hedge fund marketplace. The drivers of this growth from the hedge fund side are more fully paid assets, including investments in financial products that themselves contain built-in leverage, and a heightened awareness of the potential for counterparty credit risk. The definition of Prime Custody continues to change depending on the custodian; however, with different clients and providers using the term to mean different things. As their service models evolve, custodians are also growing into the challenge and opportunity of serving a larger hedge fund client base.
In collaboration with: Finadium LLC |
