All articles by Amin Rajan
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Features
Between a rock and a hard place
Investors are unsure whether the current market rally can outlive central bank action, argue Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan
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Special Report
Top 400 Asset Managers: Is smart beta all that smart?
There is no Holy Grail in investing, and new ideas have their limitations, argues Amin Rajan
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Features
Manager selection in a volatile world
Amin Rajan and Roland Meerdter find that short-term performance is the primary motivation behind the selection of managers and funds
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Features
ETFs: Part of the furniture
Amin Rajan argues that the success story of exchange traded funds is here to stay
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Opinion Pieces
Amin Rajan: 'Pension funds demand discipline, but discipline can stifle hedge funds' creativity'
First, the good news: assets under management in hedge funds have not only surpassed their previous peak of around $2trn (€1.6trn) reached in 2007, but they are also likely to attract another trillion dollars by 2016, according to ‘Institutional Investment in Hedge Funds’, a survey by Citi Prime Finance.
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Features
Trusted adviser 2.0
In this third and final article in the current series, Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan conclude that, as markets have become disconnected from fundamental value drivers, the role of trusted adviser is gaining traction.
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Features
Diversification 2.0
With asset class correlations no longer following their historic norms, a new form of diversification focused on risk is emerging, according to Jim McCaughan and Amin Rajan
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Features
Making a virtue out of necessity
While investors have grown weary of new risks, they are unwilling to forego a bargain when they see it, according to Jim McCaughan and Amin Rajan
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Features
Moment of reckoning
The 300 Club, a grouping of leading investment professionals, believes that modern portfolio theory and practice are failing institutional investors at a time when depressed funding levels require smarter ways of investing. It has issued its first paper, The Death of Common Sense, written by Amin Rajan, a member of the 300 Club and a regularcontributor to IPE. We asked him some questions
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Special Report
DC in Europe: Avoiding a sticking-plaster solution
It is not enough that DB schemes have failed for investors to switch to DC schemes – the latter have to succeed in their own right, argues Amin Rajan
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Special Report
IPE at 15: Winning the losers’ game
In an era where old certainties no longer hold, pension funds cannot afford to sit on the sidelines and let others do the heavy lifting, argues Amin Rajan
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Features
Volatility – friend or foe?
Amin Rajan asks what if we are in a prolonged era of fatter tails and frequent bubbles?
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Features
Persistency via operational excellence
In the final article in the current series, Jervis Smith and Amin Rajan highlight the role of third-party administrators as innovation partners
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Features
Take a leaf out of Apple’s book
In the third in a new series of articles, Neeraj Sahai and Amin Rajan argue that robust innovations require robust processes and robust drivers
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Features
Responding to the wake-up call
In the third article in the current series, Nick Lyster and Amin Rajan argue that only a gold standard in client engagement will deliver decent innovation outcomes
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Features
DC products 2.0
The new generation of DC products may well evolve in the way that the internet has turned into web 2.0, according to Nick Lyster and Amin Rajan
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FeaturesInvestment innovations: a scorecard
Pension plans have an open mind about innovations, say Neeraj Sahai, Jim McCaughan and Amin Rajan
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Special Report
Top 400: Hedge funds coming of age
The credit crunch is forcing a reckless teenager to become a responsible adult, according to Amin Rajan
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Book Review
Books: The wheat and the chaff
"Investment Beliefs: A Positive Approach to Institutional Investing", by Kees Koedijk and Alfred Slager, 2011, 205 pages
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NewsDo investment innovations work?
The current crisis will be the mother of innovation, but it is time for a reality check.
