With $7.2 billion (£4.5 billion) of risk transfer deals completed over last year, the second quarter of 2011 looks to be a record quarter for the number of buyin and buyout deals completed in the UK, according to consultancy Hymans Robertson.
Since the arrest of International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, PIMCO's Mohamed El-Erian has asserted that the likelihood of Greece defaulting becomes greater.
As the federal government reached its $14.3 trillion legal limit on its debt, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner tells Congress he will start targeting federal pension funds.
New research carried out by students at Uppsala University and reported by Affärsvärlden shows that if the stock market is on the upswing, then a passive management approach across a broader market index may be superior to an active approach.
With recent mandates seemingly on the rise for third-party
securities lenders, custodians – the traditional bastion of the business – are
fighting back.
The manager of the world’s largest bond fund, who sold out of all his holdings in US Treasury bonds in March of this year, is pushing investors to move away from Treasuries and seek global investments for better yield opportunities.
