Articles and white papers relating to back office and custody issues. This section covers research for investment operations professionals, clearing & settlement staff, fund accounting managers and global custody executives. Particularly popular papers in this section include those which tackle the operational challenges facing investment managers as they manage complexity and change in investment operations. Surveys of fund operations and investment banking operations have also been well received.... A number of papers examine middle office operations: should the middle office be outsourced, or can you transform the asset management middle office to a bottom-line contributor? Other back office research in this section includes white papers on global custody, custodian ratings, clearing and settlement, settlement systems, securities lending and collateral management. A number of articles examine back office issues relating to alternative investments, specifically hedge fund administration, prime brokers and alternative investment fund operations and domiciles. Other reports cover the effect of investment regulation on the back office, for example, IFRS9 (impairment of financial assets and AIFMD).
Challenges and opportunities faced by operations leaders across the asset management, insurance and pension sectors, based on a survey of heads and directors of operations from 100 different buy-side firms across North America.
This 30-page salary guide from Randstad shows benchmark levels of compensation for roles within banking and financial services, accounting and finance.
Securities lending plays an important role in today’s global capital markets. It has long been a fundamental component of financial markets as a means of meeting settlement and collateral requirements, as well as providing vital liquidity to secondary markets. This paper acts as a guide for institutional investors.
The benefits of system consolidation in the buy-side industry based on a survey of 110 people working in asset management, mutual funds, pension funds, insurance and bank treasury firms.
Challenges and opportunities faced by asset manager and asset owners, based on a survey of 100 heads and directors of operations from different buy-side firms across the UK and Europe.
This 29th edition of Deloitte's Performance Magazine continues its journey of crisscrossing the asset management industry, from a geographical, segment, and client perspective.
The search for yields has driven a meteoric increase in the use of alternatives and other illiquid assets within these strategies, leading to new operational challenges. As multi-asset investing continues to grow, so too have the operational complexities of supporting these strategies. This article explores how to address…
The Aquis Search EMEA Investment Management Salary Survey & Guide 2019 details salary information and recruiting trends in the business sectors we cover. Our information has been researched and collated with the help of our clients and candidates and from our working knowledge of the marketplace.
To help buy-side firms adapt to a constantly evolving business environment where new challenges arise with short notice, we’ve developed SimCorp Standard Platforms™. These standardized and easily implemented solutions offer technology and service enablement across firms’ covering the full investment value chain. The…
Securities lending plays an important role in today’s global capital markets. It has long been a fundamental component of financial markets as a means of meeting settlement and collateral requirements, as well as providing vital liquidity to secondary markets. It supports important hedging and investment strategies and helps…
Systemically important banks and central counterparties (CCPs) interact in highly concentrated over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets. We outline the CCP-bank nexus to think about the endogenous interactions between banks and CCPs in periods of stress. As these interactions could potentially lead to destabilising…
Front-to-back is this season’s new black. Accelerated by the rapid rise of alternatives, which presents new costs and challenges, buy-side firms are now seeing the benefits of multi-asset, end-to-end solutions. With increased volumes of data and the complexity of alternatives instruments, the need to consolidate fragmented,…
This report presents survey results for participants in the Middle East/Africa (MEA) region and India only and compares compensation levels and job satisfaction across several demographic groups.
This study aims to present a picture of what current salaries are like for private bankers/asset managers with senior profiles within the Spanish Market. To compile this information, we have taken into account a series of factors that can directly affect the salary itself.
The salary and hiring insights in this twelfth edition of our annual Guide are drawn from over 5,000 employers across Asia representing some six million employees. The annual Hays Asia Salary Guide remains the definitive snapshot of salaries for positions across Asia. As part of our guide we offer a thorough market overview…
Cleared derivatives contracts are now concentrated among a small and dwindling number of institutions. Many policymakers and regulators have argued that this concentration has adverse consequences, some of which may have systemic risk implications. The authors explore the benefits and challenges of encouraging major end-…
The ability to quickly engage in new strategies and deploy new asset classes is crucial to producing the returns that will attract and retain investors in today’s competitive environment. For these to be effective however, special attention must be paid to increasing operational efficiency. This article examines the…
This report by Hays looks into provides insights into a variety of job roles in the different GCC countries. Sectors covered include accountancy & finance.
