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Leadership turnover: Apple, Google, MS and the fund industry

We have discussed the accelerating leadership turnover in the global asset management industry quite a bit of late, along with concentration of assets and flows to fewer products. In fact, the 50 bestsellers in the fund industry in the last … Continue reading

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Accelerated leadership turnover, why the winner takes all…

We have discussed the accelerating leadership turnover in the global asset management industry quite a bit of late, along with concentration of assets and flows to fewer products. In fact, the 50 bestsellers in the fund industry in the last … Continue reading

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Keynote speech on China-U.S. alongside John Kerry in NY

In early June I will give a keynote luncheon on the role of China and the US in the asset management world at the China Institutional Investment Conference in NY alongside John Kerry, who in his capacity as Chairman of … Continue reading

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Dinner with Nassim Taleb in NY

Last night we had dinner with Nassim Taleb in downtown New York, who afterwards gave a keynote speech on his new edition on “robustness and fragility” when it comes to Black Swans. Always provocative in his remarks, Nassim covered black … Continue reading

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Mutual funds in times of crisis

What is the role of and the impact on mutual funds in times of crisis? In light of yesterday’s events – the brief 1,000 point plunge of the Dow, currency roulette (Euro and Pound vs. Dollar), elections in the UK, … Continue reading

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Japan case study: innovation in asset management, cloud computing and smart grids

Japan is a parallel universe. Whenever I travel to Tokyo (or when clients from Tokyo visit us in New York), I am amazed to how completely different Japan is – always extremes, never middle of the road. Anyone that has … Continue reading

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Dear SEC…

Any industry these days is concerned with brand and public image, but the SEC has taken it to a whole new level since the crises – in their case: crisis. It was supposed to be a sleepy but powerful post … Continue reading

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Can I touch it?

Everyone had and has an opinion when it comes to the iPad and there have been other highly anticipated IT breakthroughs, of course, I just can’t remember any right now. The real reason why Apple this week reported record quarterly … Continue reading

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Asia travel blog – insults, service and competition

I just touched down in New York after two busy but exciting weeks in Singapore and Hong Kong. Of course, I shouldn’t mention the two cities in the same sentence or blog, but after some 20 hours in the air … Continue reading

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Taking over the world

What’s next on the horizon for mutual funds? I am at the airport lounge in Singapore on my way to Hong Kong after a whirlwind week of meetings in New York, London, Singapore and now Hong Kong, as I watch … Continue reading

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