Deutsche outsources pension advisory to India’
Oct 31st, 2006 | Filed under: CAPM / Alpha TheoryBy: Carolyn Bandel, IPE
Published: October 31, 2006
In “The Search for Talent is the Search for Alpha“, we argued that employee “talent” was analogous to alpha in many ways. In doing so, we also argued that emerging markets represented both new supplies of alpha and, as the Economist had pointed out, new supplies of talent.
Today Deutsche Bank shows us that the link between investment skill and other forms of talent can be quite literal. IPE reports today that DB has outsourced core investment management processes to India. While this does not necessarily mean DB will be exploiting Indian market inefficiencies to any greater extent, it does illustrate that underexploited markets represent a good hunting ground for both investments and investment operations.
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