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Why Latin American Currencies Will Stay Very Strong

Reprinted with the permission of Business News Americas

Investor sentiment has played a critical role in the performance of emerging market currencies over the past 30 years. The relaxation of capital controls and deregulation of local financial markets helped stimulate cross-border capital flows. Positive sentiment typically led to indiscriminant waves of foreign investment into emerging markets, which often threatened to capsize local markets due to overinvestment. Negative sentiment typically led to indiscriminant waves of foreign divestment from emerging markets, which would lead to a collapse in local equity prices, currencies and even economies.

Author:   Michael Woolfolk
Business:   Global Markets
Publication date:   August 2012


Why Latin American Currencies Will Stay Very Strong (Spanish)

Reprinted with the permission of Business News Americas

Investor sentiment has played a critical role in the performance of emerging market currencies over the past 30 years. The relaxation of capital controls and deregulation of local financial markets helped stimulate cross-border capital flows. Positive sentiment typically led to indiscriminant waves of foreign investment into emerging markets, which often threatened to capsize local markets due to overinvestment. Negative sentiment typically led to indiscriminant waves of foreign divestment from emerging markets, which would lead to a collapse in local equity prices, currencies and even economies.

Author:   Michael Woolfolk
Business:   Global Markets
Publication date:   August 2012


Risk Roadmap: Hedge Funds and Investors' Evolving Approach to Risk

These continue to be challenging times for hedge fund managers. Regulatory scrutiny is up, public understanding remains low, and even institutional uncertainty about the global economy has negatively impacted the industry. The hedge fund manager must now tread ever more carefully between the concentric boundaries of risk aversion and risk acceptance to achieve goals consistent with a particular fund's stated purpose, pedigree, and assets.

Authors:   Marina Lewin, Mike McCabe, Orla Nallen, Mark Mannion
In collaboration with:   the Managed Funds Association and HedgeMark Advisors, LLC
Business:   Alternative Investment Services
Publication date:   August 2012


The Renewed Appeal of Pension Pools

Reprinted with the permission of Berlinguer Ltd

Until recently, it looked like pension fund pooling had fizzled into insignificance even before it had managed to enjoy prime days. However, it did not fade away at all and pension pooling looks to have become more popular among multinationals than ever before.

Author:   Kerry White
Business:   Asset Servicing
Publication date:   August 2012


VIDEO: New Dynamics - The Changing Landscape for Asset Servicing in EMEA

Hani Kablawi, Head of Asset Servicing for Europe, Middle East and Africa explores the key priorities for institutional investors as they seek to grow and transform their businesses in today's challenging and evolving environment.

Author:   Hani Kablawi
Business:   Asset Servicing
Publication date:   August 2012


CIO View: Global Uncertainty and Thirst for Yield Dominate Markets for the Rest of 2012

Standish CIO Dave Leduc describes how the developed world's debt problems are transforming the notion of safe-haven government bonds and argues that credit markets for the rest of the year will be pulled between debt-induced uncertainty and a thirst for yield.

Author:   David Ludec
Business:   Investment Management
Publication date:   August 2012


Investment Update -- Deja Voodoo

Monthly investment commentary from BNY Mellon Wealth Management

Business:   Wealth Management
Publication date:   August 2012


Sluggish Economic Recovery and European Woes Curb Global M&A

BNY Mellon Chief Global Markets Strategist Jack Malvey argues that an encore of seasonal affect disorder might be descending on capital markets, as sluggish economic recovery and eurozone uncertainty continue to weigh on sentiment and curb global M&A activity.

Author:   Jack Malvey
Business:   Investment Management
Publication date:   July 2012


BNY Mellon Regulatory News Spotlight: CFTC & SEC Begin Finalizing OTC Reform -- Final Definition of Swaps Approved as Part of Dodd-Frank

As a result of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are writing rules to regulate the swaps marketplace, and recently approved the final product definitions for swaps and security-based swaps. These final rules will further define the swap regulatory oversight environment as co-regulated by the CFTC and the SEC.

Businesses:  Corporate, Collateral Services
Publication date:   July 2012


Potential Beneficiaries of a U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance

The Boston Company argues that changes over the past decade have made US manufacturing more globally competitive and that we may have reached a tipping point for a revival.

Authors:   Shirley Mills, Jason Gibson, Thomas Karthaus, Timothy McCormick, Robin Wehbe
Business:   Investment Management
Publication date:   July 2012


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