Category Archives: politics

Top 25 paid women in business – finance leads the way

After my post “womenomics – the end of men in finance?” earlier this week, let’s move away from just titles and see who brings home the bacon. Fortune just published the list of the best paid 25 female powerhouses, and … Continue reading

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China is Taking Over Times Square

Starting next Monday, China will take over the “crossroads of the world”, on New York’s 2 Times Square. Renting the most prominent location on the building for up to $500,000 per month, China’s Xinhua is announcing its presence to the … Continue reading

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Quo vadis, UCITS? 25 Years of UCITS – Oped with Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, EFAMA president

This week I published an oped piece with Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, President of EFAMA, on UCITS – with a review of the last 25 years, status quo, and future opportunities and challenges for the increasingly global brand of UCITS. Full … Continue reading

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Building Bridges: Asia and Global Asset Management – Views from Top Institutions and Distributors

This week Strategic Insight is publishing a new book on Asia, our third in a series on books on the region. I spent the last few years talking with over one thousand large institutional investors and distributors around the world … Continue reading

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Hong Kong throws the gauntlet at London and New York.

We have observed the metatrend “west-to-east” for a while – US and European firms targeting business growth across Asia and other emerging markets, both from an investment and distribution standpoint. We also have observed that, post-crisis, the latter markets are … Continue reading

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State of the Union

President Obama on Tuesday in his State of the Union address will touch on five “pillars” to ensure the competitiveness and growth of the US: innovation, education, infrastructure, deficit reduction, reforming government. Preparing for meetings in the Philippines, Thailand, Brunei … 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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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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As the U.S. sleeps…

Finally, about 100 years late (thank you, Bismarck), the U.S. this week passed something reminiscent of health care reform. Just to show Obama that the concept of bipartisanship is anathema to U.S. politics, Republicans honored it with exactly zero votes. … Continue reading

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