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Chris Duncan

Chris is a senior consultant at MRM. Before entering PR he spent six years as a financial journalist, latterly as investment editor at leading trade paper Money Marketing.

Having already worked closely with Andrew at Mainland PR when he left journalism, Chris joined MRM in February 2007 from the corporate communications team of Lloyds TSB.

His skills as an investment writer and eye for news make him one of the most effective operators in the business.

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Guilty as charged?

By Chris Duncan on August 20, 2010

Whenever markets trade in a range or head south for a sustained period, you can bet that investment fund charges will come under scrutiny. With volatility high, indices on a knife edge and investors increasingly trepidatious, a glut of stories has duly appeared highlighting ‘opaque’ TERs, ‘hidden charges’, unloved performance fees and high AMCs. As [...]

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Rating agencies have hardly covered themselves in glory in recent times. If last week is anything to go by, the stain on their reputation could grow significantly larger.

By Chris Duncan on July 26, 2010

S&P, Moody’s and Fitch made a bold decision last week: they effectively banned the use of their ratings for new issues of asset-backed bonds. Since credit ratings are a legal requirement for bond registration statements in the US, this move has, in a single stroke, shut down the public market for asset-backed securities. (Although the [...]

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Brand Ucits: losing its lustre?

By Chris Duncan on July 14, 2010

When is a Ucits fund no longer a Ucits fund? That is the question currently facing the European fund industry, as regulators attempt – as outlined in this week’s FTfm – to reconcile the increasing complexity of ‘Newcits’ funds with the rules outlined in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid). It’s not hard to [...]

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The unsociable FSA’s Dr Pepper moment

The unsociable FSA’s Dr Pepper moment

The Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) latest guidance (this link downloads a PDF of the guidance, by the way) on the application of social web tools by regulated businesses was issued a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday, I was given the chance to offer my view as part of BrightTalk’s Thought Leadership Live programme. In The [...]