US-based investment management firm Vanguard announced on Thursday another step towards applying blockchain technology to digitize asset-backed securities markets. Through a partnership with technology provider Symbiont and in close collaboration with a large US ABS issuer, as well as BNY Mellon, Citi, and State Street, Vanguard managed to model the full lifecycle of an ABS…
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Why The Stock Market Needs Activist Investors
Rarely do proxy fights look as similar to a Rocky sequel than the mine continuing to play out between Nelson Peltz and Procter & Gamble. Weeks after P&G declared the effort by Peltz to gain a board seat a failure, he jumped off the mat to land a knockout punch after an independent tally discovered…
Investing your money in a tracker fund
The rising popularity of “passive” investing has seen savers put hundreds of billions of pounds into cheap tracker funds. These funds allow you to invest in the FTSE 100, for example, for less than 0.1pc a year. There is a general assumption that, relative to stock picking, tracking an index is a simple task that…
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