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Fund managers across America, nudged by the SEC, seek to replicate European rules The launch of Mifid II represented Europe’s biggest shake-up in the relationship between banks and investors in a generation. Now an unusual switch from US regulators may help elements of it to spread across the Atlantic. In March, Dalia Blass, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investment management division, took Wall Street by surprise, saying she would allow fund managers to... Read more

Budgets ‘down by an average of 30 per cent’ but variations are significant Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.comT&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found here. https://www.ft.com/content/a4de8088-378d-3e39-bc6c-0efe736239a8 Fund houses... Read more

Lobbying of SEC fuels speculation that fund groups want to extend model to the US Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.comT&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found here. https://www.ft.com/content/075382ef-6c58-3b21-9010-63aa8e013d70... Read more

Smaller IR teams most affected Mifid II has put the IR teams of UK companies under increasing pressure as demands from investors soar, according to research from London-based IR specialist firm Orient Capital. The implementation of Mifid II in January last year always had the potential to increase the range of responsibilities IR teams must take on as support from brokers reduced and investors engaged with issuers directly. This, states the research, is clearly placing... Read more

It's time to consider Video as an important IR tool You may have asked yourself “why aren’t more investor meetings organized using video in the cloud?”.  If you haven’t asked yourself that…you should.  Technology has made advances in not only software and hardware but also in…bandwidth. Video is the fastest growing communication medium in the world.  I am sure “your company” is using video for marketing, internal communications and/or customer service.  WHY NOT FOR IR?  In a world where ESG is... Read more

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II will turn one on January 3, 2019. How has the sweeping European directive impacted the U.S. equities market and how has it affected brokers’ relationships with EU and US clients? That was the topic of a Thursday afternoon panel discussion at WBR Equities Leaders Summit. As a European ruleset, MiFID II isn’t binding for U.S. firms that don’t do business on the ‘Old Continent’ . But that only goes... Read more

 look at Mifid II in the US a year after Europe-wide implementation A year on from the implementation of Mifid II in Europe, IROs in the US are seeing how the regulation is changing the EU’s investment management landscape – and are watching for ripple effects. That’s because two areas IROs typically manage – research coverage and corporate access – are starting to be impacted.   It’s important for IROs in the US to understand how their... Read more