How to keep up: Tackling the risks of regulatory change

First in series of three articles looking at investment regulation

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Gareth Johnson explores why keeping up with the ever-changing investment regulation is so challenging...

In June, Professional Adviser reported that "keeping up with regulatory changes" had been identified as the top threat facing asset management businesses in FE Fundinfo's recent Asset Managers Report. Some 41% of 100 senior asset managers considered the risk greater than even pressure on margins, costs, or tech disruption, including artificial intelligence (AI). Phew. In this article, the first of three, I explore just why it is that keeping up with the regulations is so challenging and sign post current key regulatory focuses. In the second, I will address how these challenges are manif...

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