MSCI
Indexer looks to tap quant fund demand for big data
MSCI’s historical real-time data could be used in backtesting strategies, pricing exotic options
Firms race to apply machine learning to liquidity risk models
As key regulatory deadline looms, US mutual funds are waiting to see if machine learning can enhance liquidity risk models
Seeds of destruction? Funds grapple with index effect
Rapid growth fuels anxiety over passive sector’s vulnerability to frontrunning
Full up already? Industry divided over smart beta capacity
Research Affiliates argues trading costs will wipe out returns; critics say assumptions overblown
Smart beta managers face fixed-income paradox
The extension of smart beta ideas to fixed income is posing questions about how well risk factors are really understood
Now in 3D: buy side turning to new liquidity risk metrics
Industry moving away from outdated ways to visualise key risk
Index provider of the year: MSCI
Continued commitment to innovation in factor-based investment powers indexer to crown
Asia Risk Congress 2016: Driving growth in indexes
Sponsored video: MSCI and Singapore Exchange
Asia Risk Congress 2016: The new risk management landscape
Sponsored video: MSCI
Risk premia providers claim Brexit success
Index providers say strategies passed critical test convincingly
South Africa structured product boom raises concerns
Issuance gallops ahead amid higher rates and weak rand, but some are wary
Benchmark providers eye banks’ prop index disposals
Stricter oversight could see index houses gobble up dealers’ in-house indexing units
Market risk technology product of the year (buy side): MSCI
LiquidityMetrics uses buy-side questionnaire to measure liquidity in data-scarce bond market
Citi bolsters structured finance team in London
New appointments in structured credit and prime brokerage sales
StanChart undergoes shake-up in forex, rates and credit
Gulabani leaves Standard Chartered; Bagguley promoted at Barclays; Santander hires new forex head; and more
Source bolsters UK and Swiss offices, plus other recent job news
UK office adds Bhavick Patel while Alain Kunz joins in Switzerland
Index providers clash over evolution of multi-factor products
Battle of ideas on how best to offer new wave of smart beta exposures heats up
Volatility mispricing ripe source of profits, says Malachite
Hedge fund thinks ETFs, Solvency II and capital ratios distort volatility markets
Malaysia's missed opportunity in equity derivatives
Asian financial crisis saw Malaysia move from vangard to slow lane of Asia's markets
Index provider of the year: MSCI
Firm praised for transparent approach to index construction and pioneering partnerships with exchanges
The future of risk
Sponsored video: MSCI
People: Seyer joins MSCI to head global client coverage
UBS promotes Shane Edwards to head of global equity derivatives
Europe set to be key battleground for index providers
Index providers chase new strategies and compete on fees
Green indexes: a sustainable future?
Differing selection criteria mean some ethical indexes are purer than others