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Asset managers face 30% fall in profits
June 5, 2016--Rise of passive investing and volatile markets will hurt earnings, says McKinsey
Source: FT.com
Eurex: Trading statistics May 2016
Eurex Exchange: ADV 5.9 million contracts/ISE: ADV 2.1 million contracts
June 1, 2016--In May 2016, the international derivatives markets of Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group, recorded an average daily volume of 8.0 million contracts (May 2015: 10.1 million).
Of those, 5.9 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (May 2015: 7.7 million), and 2.1 million contracts (May 2015: 2.4 million) were traded at the New York based International Securities Exchange (ISE). The volume traded on the spot and derivatives power markets of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 287.8 terawatt hours (TWh). Eurex Repo recorded in all markets in May 2016 an average outstanding volume of 142.6 billion euros.
Source: Eurex
Global economy stuck in low-growth trap: Policymakers need to act to keep promises, OECD says in latest Economic Outlook
June 1, 2016--The global economy is stuck in a low-growth trap that will require more coordinated and comprehensive use of fiscal, monetary and structural policies to move to a higher growth path and ensure that promises are kept to both young and old, according to the OECD's latest Global Economic Outlook.
"Growth is flat in the advanced economies and has slowed in many of the emerging economies that have been the global locomotive since the crisis," OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said while launching the Outlook during the Organisation's annual Ministerial Council Meeting and Forum in Paris.
Source: OECD
Sustainable consumption and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
June 1, 2016--So far, economies and businesses have benefited from cheaper and better imports and improvements in efficiencies in production. And growth has come from selling at a greater scale and has been achieved through volume.
Unfortunately, in the past 50 years, 60% of the earth's ecosystem has been depleted and natural-resource consumption is expected to rise by three to six times by 2050. The population is expected to reach over 9 billion people by 2050 and the global middle class is expected to triple by 2030. With this in mind, how long can we sustain this development model without further damaging the environment and aggravating existing inequalities?
view the Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis-A Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Source: World Economic Forum
Bears in charge as MSCI's decision on China shares looms
May 31, 2016--It was a year ago that index provider MSCI considered whether to include Chinese domestic-listed A shares in its emerging market indices. The Chinese market was charging ahead, with the Shanghai Composite Index peaking on June 12, two days after MSCI opted not to include the shares.
Source: FT.com
'Low vol' funds attract more than $10bn of inflows this year
May 30, 2016--Fears rise sector's newfound size could change behaviour of underlying stocks.
Equity funds that promise to shield investors from market volatility attracted inflows for the 11th straight month in May, making them a marketing success story for the asset management industry but triggering warnings that they may not behave as expected in a future market downturn.
Source: FT.com
The USA toppled as world's most competitive economy
IMD World Competitiveness rankings released
May 30, 2016--The USA has surrendered its status as the world's most competitive economy after being overtaken by China Hong Kong and Switzerland, according to the IMD World Competitiveness Center.
The sheer power of the economy of the USA is no longer sufficient to keep it at the top of the prestigious World Competitiveness Ranking, which it has led for the past three years.
Source: imd.org
Infographic-The Entire Blockchain Ecosystem in One Visualization
May 30, 2016--The size of the bitcoin market may still be microscopic when contrasted with other global markets, but that hasn't stopped the eight-year-old cryptocurrency, as well as the surrounding blockchain ecosystem, from evolving.
Source: visualcapitalist.com
Infographic-What's Hot (and Not) in Early Stage Tech
May 27, 2016--Using big data to discover what aspiring entrepreneurs are thinking
The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays.
There are many ways to get a pulse on the startup scene to see what is trending. For example, one could look at the sub-sectors getting the most money from venture capitalists. The more deals and money hitting a sub-sector, the more it could be on its way up the ladder.
Source: visualcapitalist.com
Demographic shift stunts fund growth
May 27, 2016--Michelle Seitz, head of William Blair IM, on the challenges facing 'mature' asset management
