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Liquidity vanishes when it's needed most
On 15 October 2014, the yield on the benchmark 10-year US Treasury note plunged from 2.02% to 1.86%, an event that was meant to occur only once every 3.5 billion years according to Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, speaking at the time. The culprit was weaker than expected US retail data. However, as...
Monetary policy U-turn carries its own risks
The late Paul Samuelson, a Nobel Prize winner, once quipped that the stock market had forecast nine of the last five economic recessions — a damning indictment on the market's clairvoyance but a useful insight for investors. Financial markets and the real economy often diverge. In the past 50 years,...
Sustainable and responsible investment regulations: enabler or drag?
SRI REGULATIONS, WHERE ARE WE NOW? In 2018, the Commission published three legislative proposals aimed at the following measures:create an EU sustainable finance taxonomy;make disclosures relating to sustainable investments and sustainability risks clearer;establish...
The art of measuring service provider performance
ServiceMatrix has released its latest reports, presenting dependable measures of service provider performance. The new reports, encompassing Client Service, FX, Pre-trade/Trading and Global Custody, depict evaluation by prestigious institutions on the aspects that matter to them. Open access to the...
