Category Archives: EU
The City Needs More Ambition
Where is the City’s ambition? Some consider the City to be the home of ravenous ambition, both individual and corporate. That might be true, but it is not the question of the hour; that question relates to the City as …
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Tagged in: BREXIT, City, Delegation, Divergence, EU, Howard Flight, Lord Flight
Happy New Decade
At the beginning will be Brexit. At the end will be Brexit. And in between it will mainly be Brexit. I hope that those remarks relate to 2020, not to the whole decade, but I am probably wrong. There will …
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Tagged in: Acquisition of research, Assessment of value, asset management market study, BREXIT, Engagement Policy, EU, FCA, FIIA, Independent Directors, investment research, Liquidity, MiFID, NURS, Passport, senior managers regime, SMCR, SRD II, UCITS, Woodford
Stressing the Directors
As we may have mentioned before, the FCA is a trifle concerned about the liquidity of investment funds. Some would say that the threat to the career of its Chief Executive was good reason for the organisation to focus the …
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Tagged in: AFM, asset management market study, Authorised Fund Managers, EU, FCA, Independent Directors, Liquidity, Liquidity Management, Stress Testing, UCITS, Woodford