Annual research report on Japan’s Asset Management Business (JAMB). Detailing Japanese investor trends, the current state of the asset management business and local market trends and product strategies, NRI’s...
With asset management companies' middle-office operations converging internationally and across different types of accounts, BPO (business process outsourcing) services' scope is expanding from back office to middle office. BPO's...
China's securities industry landscape is expected to change dramatically over the next several years. Until a new order led by several internationally competitive securities firms emerges, China will delay...
XBRL holds promise as a means of rapidly disseminating large amounts of information contained in securities filings and analyzing increasingly diverse corporate operations from various angles. Initiatives to improve...
This year NRI again surveyed banks regarding their securities investment programs and risk management regimes. The survey revealed disparate interest-rate risk management capabilities and attitudes toward investing in complex products.
Data-based estimates of changes in retirees' public pension and employer-sponsored retirement benefits, the main sources of post-retirement income, reveal that income inequality between low- and high-income retirees is likely...
China's auto insurance market is growing rapidly in tandem with car ownership. Some insurers have started selling auto insurance via telephone and/or the Internet in addition to the agency...
Loss of trust is a calamity for any business. Once lost, trust is extremely difficult to regain, as the financial industry has learned in the wake of the recent...
Yen-selling intervention increases the dollar funds in our FX reserves. In the past, its majority was quickly used to buy UST. In the short term, such purchases risk undermining...
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is mulling whether to extend its trading hours. On July 25, it published a discussion paper that proposed specific approaches to extending trading hours...