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Failure is optional in mergers & acquisitions
2017 was a banner year for M&A in global asset management. The tempo has eased somewhat this year. But there is a big difference between the latest wave of M&A and the wave that happened around the turn of the millennium. In many cases, skills as well as scale or market position were the primary...
ServiceMatrix vendor performance reports
Launching on November 26 is an annual invitation to encourage the buy-side (asset managers, institutional investors, family offices, etc.) and the sell-side (typically brokers and broker-dealers) to join some of the world's most prestigious institutions by evaluating their vendors at ServiceMatrix....
Elon Musk: a champion of long-term investing?
When an iconic entrepreneur is humbled so publicly, it's a moment of truth. But it's the bigger truth that is often the real casualty. Thus it was so over Elon Musk's dust-up with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding his fateful tweet on 7 August, which falsely claimed that the necessary...
Mind the gap
For many years, supposedly sophisticated financial institutions were in the dark when it came to the implicit costs of trade execution, while the front office paid scant attention to the costs of clearing and settlement. Recent years have seen a steady move towards building an understanding of and...
