Insurance – it’s everywhere. We all use it. Someone makes money from it, and it might as well be institutional investors and their clients, writes KATE WILKIE, a product specialist in Credit Suisse Asset Management’s alternatives solutions business..
Risk transfer is an age old process. The popular book titled “The Richest Man in Babylon”, set in ancient times, described a form of life insurance via the use of rudimentary pooling techniques.
Insurance – it’s everywhere. We all use it. Someone makes money from it, and it might as well be institutional investors and their clients, writes KATE WILKIE, a product specialist in Credit Suisse Asset Management’s alternatives solutions business..
Risk transfer is an age old process. The popular book titled “The Richest Man in Babylon”, set in ancient times, described a form of life insurance via the use of rudimentary pooling techniques.
SimCorp, the Danish provider of investment administration software, has adapted to a time of heightened counterparty awareness and lowered IT budgets by emphasising the ability of its flagship Dimension product to act as an enterprise-wide risk management tool.
Schroder Investment Management UK recently finished installing Dimension as a ‘portfolio book of records’ across all of its asset classes, and Simcorp is claiming some credit for Schroders’ subsequent upgrading by ratings agency Fitch, which mentioned the managers’ newfound ability to conduct “daily surveillance of counterparty risks” in its upbeat assessment.The ramifications of the global financial crisis are broad and deep, especially for the financial services industry, and super funds need to be well aware of how their service providers are being impacted. One of the least-well appreciated ways that funds may be affected, according to Stephen van Eyk, is in the breakdown of certain … Read more
The ramifications of the global financial crisis are broad and deep, especially for the financial services industry, and super funds need to be well aware of how their service providers are being impacted. One of the least-well appreciated ways that funds may be affected, according to Stephen van Eyk, is in the breakdown of certain … Read more
Would you like to know how many times Investment & Technology published a story including the word ‘after-tax’ in 2007? I’ll tell you anyway. 29. And how many do you reckon we’ll run in 2009? This editorial could well be it. One fundie recently cheered themselves up by reminding me that such were the losses … Read more
Would you like to know how many times Investment & Technology published a story including the word ‘after-tax’ in 2007? I’ll tell you anyway. 29. And how many do you reckon we’ll run in 2009? This editorial could well be it. One fundie recently cheered themselves up by reminding me that such were the losses … Read more
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