Industry
Tax & Regulation | 13 Jan 17
UK to crackdown on managers responsible for corporate crime
The UK government is to toughen laws governing fraudulent or dishonest activity by financial services companies to make it easier to successfully prosecute criminal offences such as fraud, money laundering and false accounting.
Best Practice | 13 Jan 17
Retail investment and robo-advice top SEC’s 2017 priorities
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has put retail investor protection and robo-advice at the centre of its examinations programme for 2017.
Nucleus chairman and Skandia founder Paul Bradshaw dies
Nucleus chairman and Skandia founder Paul Bradshaw has sadly passed away following a cardiac arrest.
PEOPLE MOVES: Axa, James Hambro, Fidelity Int’l
After 10 years with the business, the chief executive of Axa Global Asset Management has announced she is stepping down. James Hambro & Partners has made three senior staff members partners of the business, with Fidelity International handing five multi-asset open range funds to a new portfolio manager.
Best Practice | 13 Jan 17
Asset managers must ‘innovate and industrialise’
The asset management industry is facing an innovation dilemma as it struggles to free itself from encumbered business models and embrace industrialisation, says Matthew Lamb, chief executive of Pacific Asset Management.