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Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Greg MacSweeney |
Investors Demand Hedge Fund Transparency Institutional investors are already demanding more transparency from hedge funds. Not to be outdone, regulators are readying new rules for hedge fund reporting. |
Insurance & Technology March 30, 2009 Nathan Conz |
Clearwater Analytics Launches Insurance Offering Clearwater Analytics has released Insurance Analytics to address the industry's investment reporting needs. |
Insurance & Technology April 15, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell |
Demand for Sophisticated Risk Management Capabilities Increasing Senior executives of many financial services enterprises, including insurance companies, now must rethink how they manage risk and, in particular, how they use predictive modeling to justify the risks that they take. |
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos |
Alternative Investment Tools As hedge funds gain wider acceptance in the wealth-management space, investment advisers struggle to determine how they fit into their clients' portfolios. |
Investment Advisor May 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Raising the Bar An interview with Morningstar's Don Phillips, president of fund research, about the renewed importance of research in investing. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2005 Louis Cameron Day |
You've Got Concerns A new, individualized approach to portfolio management may lessen your financial advisory clients' confusion. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 24, 2008 Thompson & Mataconis |
Banks Must Rely On Their Own Risk Models in Future Long-term, it's clear that banks will have to provide more transparency into their credit and risk decisions -- and do a lot more of the work themselves. |
FDIC FYI July 24, 2002 |
Enhancing Financial Transparency Participants in the conference discussed the strengths and flaws inherent in the U.S. financial reporting process and suggested ways of modifying not only the reporting mechanism, but also the accounting standards that underlie financial statements, audit opinions, credit ratings and analyst reports. |
Bank Systems & Technology December 29, 2009 Henry Ristuccia |
Washington's Regulatory Agenda Will Shape Banks' Risk IT Strategies Now is the time to examine governance, risk and regulatory compliance processes and to get your house in order so that your bank can be ahead of any requirements that may be enacted. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
The Supreme Court Spares Sarbanes-Oxley Fortunately, the Court appears to have upheld the spirit of accounting transparency for the good of investors. |
HBS Working Knowledge August 9, 2004 |
Readers Respond: For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 An Effective Response? Readers submit opposing views on the topic of "internal controls." |
CFO July 15, 2010 |
Know Your Levers Readers comment on working capital, the euro, investing cash, and more. |
CFO September 1, 2006 Ronald Fink |
Numbers Crunch Think reporting has changed since Enron? Just wait. |
CFO March 1, 2012 Vincent Ryan |
Where to Stash the Cash? As safe havens for short-term funds disappear, companies weigh whether to assume some risk in return for a modest yield. |
FDIC FYI May 30, 2002 |
Financial Transparency and Regulatory Policy The importance of financial transparency and investor confidence in financial markets can hardly be overstated in the current environment... |
BusinessWeek May 28, 2009 Peter Carbonara |
Hedge Fund Investors Gain Power With returns sinking, hedge funds and private equity firms are lowering fees, increasing transparency, and competing for investors' cash. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 24, 2003 Jim Heskett |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Transparency in financial accounting: are we addressing symptoms or causes? |
Financial Advisor August 2009 Roy Diliberto |
Transparency: A Model For Our Profession Investment advisers should only have one interest in mind, and that is the individual. |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Ronald W. Roge |
To Hedge or Not to Hedge The underlying premise of hedge funds, to reduce volatility in a portfolio, is not in itself flawed. What can we do, as fiduciaries, to use them to achieve the performance necessary to meet our clients' long-term financial objectives? |
Financial Advisor November 2012 Mary Rowland |
Tough Test An entrepreneur evaluates advisors for the wealthy. These families now have a "search firm" to perform due diligence on advisors and help the families find exactly the right one. |
Financial Advisor May 2012 Michael J. Mcdermott |
Day Of Reckoning Fee-based advisors should benefit when 401(k) participants soon find out the cost of their plans. |
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Greg MacSweeney |
WS&T Presents the Capital Markets Outlook 2010 Wall Street & Technology editors examine the top 10 trends that will shape the capital markets in the coming year. |
Registered Rep. August 7, 2014 Megan Leonhardt |
Ten Charts That Explain What Advisors Think of Hedge Funds Overwhelmingly, advisors consider hedge funds an alternative investment, increasingly a generic catch-all term for anything that is not a mainstream liquid security. |
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2002 William D. Sanders |
Working Toward Improved Disclosure Every publicly traded real estate company shares the responsibility to provide clear, transparent financial information to investors... |
HBS Working Knowledge November 3, 2003 Jim Heskett |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? The collapse of companies like Enron and WorldCom cost investors tens of billions of dollars. But that amount may be dwarfed by the cost of conforming to new laws driven by those corporate scandals -- laws that are intended to protect investors. |
Insurance & Technology January 29, 2009 Craig Bedell |
Overcoming Barriers to Integrated Risk Management In a market environment where competition, globalization, market volatility and structural change are increasing, insurance companies need to manage their risks and service even better and with greater transparency. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 10, 2003 |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Readers respond: Legislation is a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior... Investors are always free to vote on the adequacy of a company's financial transparency with their dollars... The more transparency there is, the better... etc. |
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2004 Scott Farb |
The Trickle-Down Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley Real estate private equity funds are finding themselves in an overly regulated, ever-changing and immensely complex climate when it comes to financial reporting and accounting issues. |
U.S. Banker July 2009 Andrew Dubinsky |
Electronic Lending Could Help Avert Another Crisis If regulators had the tools in place to effectively view complex debt instruments and the links between the financial institutions that securitize, hold, and insure them this crisis may not have happened. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Matt Lynch |
Come Together When leading change, using inflammatory rhetoric isn't helpful. The financial services industry, at this critical crossroads, needs strong, unified leadership to help foster meaningful change, not fractured self-interest. |
Wall Street & Technology July 28, 2004 Gil Makleff |
Transparency in Tech Spending Transparency in spending corporate funds has been - until recently - "nice to have." The change from "nice to have" to "need to have now" has been well publicized, on the heels of fraud cases like those involving Enron and Worldcom, and it has crystallized in the form of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |