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investment management

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  Fine tailoring: getting the right fit for your cash investments

  At a time when yields remain at historic lows, corporates are looking outside their comfort zone to meet their cash investment needs. This could mean diversifying beyond traditional instruments such as bank deposits and money funds. In this Bank Profile, we speak to Duncan Perry, Executive Director within Morgan Stanley’s Global Liquidity Solutions division, about the areas his team are focusing on to help corporates in this regard.

  Be the first to comment | October 2012

• Are female treasurers safer at the helm?

  Is it true that female treasurers are more risk averse with a stronger desire for financial discipline than their male counterparts? A recent study by Barclays and Ledbury Research suggests so. According to the report, there exists a “unique distinction in how men and women’s emotions drive views on financial decision making” across the business world.

  2 Comments | May 2012

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  How not to fire someone. Aviva’s blunder goes viral

  According to its website, Aviva Investors prides itself in offering excellent global asset management services. But when it comes to staff management, the investment branch of the world’s sixth largest insurer takes a slightly different approach.

  Be the first to comment | April 2012

• Investors see banks in new light

  Morale in the financial sector may well be boosted by the latest findings from ratings agency Fitch.  But can improved investor sentiment towards banks be relied upon in what may be a tough year for refinancing?

  Be the first to comment | February 2012

• Problem Solved
  – A global software and services company

  We discover how a corporate treasury team worked with its MMF portal partner – State Street Fund Connect^SM — to achieve a consolidated view of all money fund trades, balances and accruals in real time. The implementation involved full integration with both a treasury workstation and the company’s analytics system.

  Be the first to comment | November 2011

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  Problem Solved
  – William Lundberg and Luis Arrieta, Amgen

  “Amgen’s treasury team was looking to optimise the risk/return profile of our investment portfolio while at the same time increase yield,” says William Lundberg, Director of Capital Markets & Investments. “Fixed income investing has become especially challenging in a low rate environment,” he continues. As such, William and Luis were concerned about how low the ‘income cushion’ was in market value weighted bond indices (eg Barclays Aggregate).

  Be the first to comment | November 2011

• Equity accounting

  When one company takes a stake in another, it must account for its equity holding in its financial statements. Which method of accounting that the investing company uses to do this depends largely on the percentage of shares (common stock) that have been purchased and the ‘influence’ those shares allow the purchaser to exercise over the investee’s business.

  Be the first to comment | July 2011

• The constant NAV myth

  It is an old argument but one that has not been satisfactorily resolved. Are money funds with a variable net asset value actually safer and more transparent…

  Be the first to comment | June 2011

• Greece matters

  Treasurers have tipped their hats to counterparty risk but most have not truly prepared for the default of a Eurozone sovereign. Interestingly their banks’ money market fund providers have already reacted. So what can treasurers do?

  Be the first to comment | May 2011

• Security, liquidity and yield: exploiting rising rates

  Treasurers with excess liquidity need deposit-like liquidity without the bank counterparty risk, risk-free capital protected investments whose value remains stable regardless of interest rates and yields above those of the risk-free rate. It turns out they may be able to have what they want.

  Be the first to comment | May 2011