All Ahead of the Curve articles – Page 6
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Ahead of the Curve: ASEAN - the next emerging economy?
Andrew Graham asks whether the ambitious integration plan of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will unlock the region’s potential, or whether the complexity of the task will overwhelm any chance of success
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Ahead of the Curve: Brands and the city
Doreen Wang says financial analysts should give a company’s brand a bigger line item in investment valuations
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Ahead of the Curve: Japan’s best is yet to come
A genuine change in corporate governance culture at Japanese companies will underpin good economic fundamentals
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Ahead of the Curve: Peer share efficiency
John Alexander examines the use of active share, active share efficiency and peer share efficiency for institutional investors
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Ahead of the curve: Is there a bull in the China shop?
The rise in Chinese stocks up more than 60% since late 2014 has raised concerns about a bubble that might burst
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Ahead of the Curve: Oil be back
Niels Jensen looks at worlwide production costs for getting oil out of the ground
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Trading liquidity for yield
Investing in illiquid, private debt markets is undeniably hard work but the rewards can be significant diversification and improved risk-adjusted return
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The ‘Japanisation’ of the economy
Martial Godet and Ankit Gheedia warn that their indicators show the rest of the world sliding into ‘Japanisation’ – just as Japan is escaping it
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UK pension funds face inflation risk
Given current forecasts, Andrew Brigden argues that the UK faces a huge shortage of inflation-linked bonds
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Ahead of the Curve: An era of diminished expectations
Peter Perkins runs through some basic asset and regional allocation strategies to meet the probable economic scenarios of the next decade
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Ahead of the Curve: Europe is the new China
George Saravelos sees ‘euroglut’ – and consequently one of the biggest capital outflows in history as excess savings flee aggressive ECB easing, sending the euro plunging against the dollar.
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Ahead of the Curve: Contagion spreads
Achilles Risvas assesses the potentially devastating knock-on effects of a fall in bond prices and a flight from credit
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Post-crisis or pre-crisis?
History warns us that the next crisis is just around the corner. Arturo Bris outlines the shapes it is taking and what we can do to mitigate it
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No place like homes
Christophe Caspar looks into whether or not European housing is a safe home for fixed income investors
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Bolt the penthouse door
The apparent recovery in the UK and converging spreads in euro-zone bond markets mask deep structural flaws in economies that have seen little genuine reform, argues Eamonn Butler
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Rates of change
Carolyn Tavares argues that the roller-coaster start to 2014, with its disconnect between economic indicators and bond yields, makes the case for holding to strategic, funding level-based de-risking programmes
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Rates of change
A multi-polar growth and monetary landscape will require a less constrained approach to fixed income, argues Stephen Cohen. Right now emerging markets look like an attractive prospect
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Favour Europe and the euro
Lorenzo Naranjo and Carmen Stefanescu argue that balance of payments and current accounts suggest Europe is strengthening while China weakens
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Cutting a tranche of yield
The current levels of default risk and the ability to tailor exposures to portfolio requirements make CLOs and CDOs potentially attractive for pension funds, writes Geoffrey Randells
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Back to the future
Pension fund boards and their investment teams should form a new partnership to promote flexibility in strategy, argues Théodore Economou
