October 2021 5 Min Read
BoE Risks Long-term Growth With Multiple Rate Hike Expectations
Northern Trust Asset Management Monthly Market Commentary for September 2021 - Exclusive Insight for TMI Subscribers
Quantitative Easing
January 2021 5 Min Read
Dealing with Distortions: Risk in the Covid Era
Investors and risk managers are staring into the abyss. Unable to use past asset pricing models to predict the immediate future they are, says Professor Riccardo Rebonato of EDHEC Business School, hamstrung by a toxic combination of politics, the current global crisis...
May 2020 3 Min Read
Money Markets and the Human-Technology Connection
As investors seek shelter under the wing of money market funds during the current crisis, Tory Hazard, CEO of Institutional Cash Distributors, discusses the relationship between people and the systems that enable them to overcome the toughest obstacles. Liquidity...
May 2020 8 Min Read
The Dangers of Negative Interest Rates
Are negative interest rates really good for treasurers, and for the world economy in general? There are admittedly some benefits, but there are many more drawbacks. Perhaps a return to zero rates would bring the greatest overall benefit. A few years ago, the...
November 2018 5 Min Read
Risk Homeostasis and the Hamster
“My hamster died last night … it fell asleep at the wheel.” – Anonymous Homeostasis refers to some regulating process that keeps an outcome close to a target by compensating for external disturbances; core bodily temperature is an example of being...
October 2018 14 Min Read
The Added Value of Centralised Cash Management under BEPS
What would be the correct price (i.e., the arm’s length transaction) of a cash transaction under BEPS (Base Erosion Profit Shifting) Actions 8-10? That’s a key question which every treasurer of an international group needs to address. The right answer is far from...
