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The Specter of Rising Interest Rates

After the 2008 financial crisis, global central banks flooded the financial markets with liquidity to restore stability and set the stage for economic recovery. But these actions also raised investor concerns about inflation and fixed income investments. In the accompanying paper, “The Specter of Rising Interest Rates,” Northern Trust’s Jim McDonald discusses the current situation […]
STAFF WRITERJuly 7, 2011
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Next-Generation Outsourcing for Wealth Managers: Riding the Wave of Converging Business Trends

For wealth managers, major industry trends are transforming the old concept of outsourcing into a fundamentally new way of delivering services, with advancing technology rapidly coming on-stream to weave together client and third-party provider relationships. Now, outsourcing is rapidly gaining traction as wealth managers are taking a longer look at how leveraging external resources can […]
STAFF WRITERJune 20, 2011
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Superannuation: Managing the Challenges of Changing Super Needs

Australia has one of the largest retirement fund pools per capita in the world. Given the significance of this relative to Australia’s total gross domestic product, the superannuation sector has come under unprecedented scrutiny with a series of major government reviews heightening the call for increased efficiency, greater engagement and ultimately improved returns. Understanding their […]
STAFF WRITERMarch 28, 2011
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Sustainable Investing: Positioning for Long-Term Success

Increased awareness of environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns is influencing the investment decisions of institutional investors more and more. Leveraging preliminary findings of new research by State Street Global Advisors, we examine the momentum behind this trend and the opportunities emerging in a rapidly shifting landscape. Click here to download the report
STAFF WRITERMarch 14, 2011
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The Changing Shape of European Investment Management

The European investment management industry is undergoing unprecedented change. The financial crisis and an evolving regulatory environment have reinforced cost pressures that have been building in recent years, creating an urgent need to achieve scale and efficiencies through a focus on core competencies. Already, a wave of consolidation has begun that is set to continue […]
STAFF WRITERFebruary 28, 2011
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Rethinking Asset Allocation

Modern Portfolio Theory is being updated with new technuiques that take advantage of the vast computational and information-aggregation capabilities available in contemporary financial markets. Increasingly, frequent non-normal returns and dramatic swings in valuations suggest that management of tail risk may emerge as a new frontier of asset allocation. Click here to download the report
STAFF WRITERFebruary 16, 2011
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