Category Archives: management

Is Mona Lisa toast?

Is Mona Lisa Toast? Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words. K11, a high end shopping area in Kowloon features this Mona Lisa version, made of toast. So I started to think, is she? To some extent, yes. … Continue reading

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Asia on the rise: service, risotto and red ferraris

Tyler brûlé this weekend called on London to get with it if they want to remain competitive. He has a point – or two. As I discussed on many occasions in the past here, Asia’s service levels are unmatched, so … Continue reading

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Hurt locker vs Avatar

Avatar, the most successful movie ever made, and the Hurt Locker, it’s David competitor, which took the Oscar. How does that relate to asset management? Blackrock vs. Carmignace, Pimco vs. Ivy, and many many more examples. We are seeing increasingly … Continue reading

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Panel with John Kerry on US-China relations and asset management

In early June I gave a keynote speech at a US-China investment conference alongside John Kerry in his capacity of chairman of the U.S. Senate Council on Foreign Relations and the vice-chair of Lazard. In the panel discussion with Kerry … Continue reading

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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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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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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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