GFC Podcast episode 5: “Digital marketing – asset managers’ sales’ best friend in these times”
Digital Marketing, virtual investment conferences and the question: LinkedIn or TikTok? This is how you could describe the topic of the 5th episode of GFC (not the ‘Global Financial Crisis’)...
The fish, the finances and the latest act in the Brexit drama
The (for the time being) final curtain in the Brexit drama is rising these days, but it does not look like a good ending for the British financial and fund...
GFC Podcast episode 4: Challenging times for Third Party Marketers
How laborious institutional fund distribution has become in times of Coronavirus and lockdown, and which conclusions can be drawn from this for the future – that’s the topic of the...
GFC Podcast episode 3: The commission cap, EU taxonomy and long hair in lockdown
The new, third episode of GFC (not the ‘Global Financial Crisis’) Podcast is about financial market regulation, the still threatening commission cap for life insurance and the EU taxonomy (and...
“Digital marketing is a big opportunity for managers of all sizes”
If the business world is united in one consequence of COVID-19, it is the conviction that digital transformation across all sectors and functions has been accelerated by the pandemic. This...
GFC Podcast episode 2: The biggest hurdles for foreign fund managers on the German market
What are the biggest challenges for foreign investment companies in Germany? And why are German institutional investors not as special in some things as they sometimes believe – but in...
“GFC (not the ‘Global Financial Crisis’) Podcast” Episode 1 now live
One of the few positive effects of the Coronavirus crisis and lockdown during recent months was that I had more time to take up new things – like creating an...
The Woodford case: When nervous investors sit on illiquid investments
The impending collapse of the Woodford Equity Income Fund (WEIF) in the UK may not only cost (ex-)star fund manager Neil Woodford his company. The crisis also casts a shadow...
The quiet before the Brexit storm (infographic)
Unease within the British investment industry is increasing: Facing the threat of a „No Deal“-scenario there are continuous speculations about the extent of (anticipated) asset outflows due to Brexit, which...
Big Brexit and small businesses: How to prepare for the unpredictable?
A couple of days ago I had an argument with my wife in the kitchen. It was, once again, about Brexit. The day before, Theresa May had received a serious...
Brexit scenario planning for PR practitioners
What does a successful Brexit result look like from a UK perspective? And how do PR practitioners prepare their clients and organisations for different Brexit scenarios? These were the tasks...
The last fund manager of London − a post-Brexit Sci-Fi short story
It’s the year 2023 and Brexit negotiations have gone terribly wrong. As a consequence, the UK has dismembered itself, an exodus of firms from London to mainland Europe has taken...
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- Penalty for not shutting gate: Hagen Gerle
