About CAST
CAST [Center for Applied Strategy] provides management consulting services to companies within the financial services industry. The phrase ‘Applied Strategy’ embedded in our name captures a cornerstone principle of the firm; providing the highest quality of service, customized to each client, resulting in significant and tangible bottom-line performance improvement.
Fresh Perspectives
Statement from CAST’s CEO, Steve McCollum (2/4/2013) - Steve McCollum, CAST's CEO, shares his views on the current economic environment:
For many 2012 will be viewed as the transition year where we began to see more good news than bad news. While leading indicators have been improving for several years, the key lagging indicators, housing prices and unemployment, continued to erode until late in 2012....
Focusing on Compliance Management (12/21/2012) - Bob Hsia, CAST Partner and Compliance Practice Lead, comments on the on-going challenge to effective compliance management as regulatory compliance issues constitute a major, and increasing, agenda…
News and Events
CASTing an Eye on Wealth Management Newsletter – May 2, 2013 (5/2/2013) - INDUSTRY TRENDS: "Directors Under Scrutiny: Survey by Willis and Allen & Overy Reveals Directors’ Top Risk Management Concerns" - London, UK, April 23, 2013 – The threat of regulatory investigations and enquiries, criminal penalties, along with anti-corruption legislation, are among the top concerns for directors and officers according to a new survey conducted by Willis Group Holdings (NYSE: WSH), the global risk adviser and insurance broker, and international law firm, Allen & Overy LLP...
CASTing an Eye on Banking Newsletter – May 2, 2013 (5/2/2013) - ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT: "BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Investors Moderating Earlier Exuberance, Though Still Positive" - Global investors are moderating their earlier exuberance in the face of somewhat lower conviction over global growth, though they remain positive towards equity markets overall, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for April.
CAST Management Consultants
700 S. Flower St., Ste. 1900
Los Angeles, CA 90017
(213) 614-8066
700 S. Flower St., Ste. 1900
Los Angeles, CA 90017
(213) 614-8066
