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Michael Robinson from AMX and Graham Whitworth from Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) highlight how AMX has entered an innovative partnership with GSAM to offer clients access to a range of GSAM’s Money Market Funds (MMFs) at pre-negotiated rates.

We asked Sebastien Proffit, Solutions Strategist at AXA Investment Management, about the use of a long-term credit fund and AXA IM’s experience of working with AMX.

We asked our six designated persons to share a bit about their experience and areas of responsibility.

In the second of our articles looking at the FCA’s 2019 governance review, Michael Robinson, FIA considers ways for insurers to diversify liquidity investments in a low interest rate environment for their unit-linked funds.

The regulatory environment for Irish-domiciled management companies has been subject to review in recent years, with greater focus on ‘substance’ to ensure that current business models are fit for purpose now and in the future.

Elaine Russell, our Head of Client Service, explores how AMX has applied the five building blocks of client experience to offer an industry-leading service.

As the industry absorbs the Central Bank of Ireland’s ‘Dear Chair’ letter, Nicola Gerety highlights the priorities and how AMX can support fund management companies and their advisors as they prepare a recommendation for the Board and action plan.

The ability of organisations to benefit from shocks has been described as ‘anti-fragile’ by the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Jonathan Greenwold asks whether businesses can draw lessons from the pandemic to become stronger.

While only scraps of the ancient Greek poems written by Archilochus have survived, what is left still resonates with us today. One fragment says: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Scholars have argued about the meaning of these brief words. A common view is that the fox, for all his cunning, is defeated by the hedgehog’s one defence. In other words – depth beats breadth every time. If anything, this is truer in the 21st century than it was in the 7th century BC.

Since the publication of the Dear Chair letter on 20 October, we have produced some articles to pave the way for FMCs to review their options. Here we explore a little deeper into two options open to FMCs if consolidation of funds and staffing up are unfeasible, namely- a third-party Management Company (ManCo) or a full platform solution.