All Asset Class Reports articles – Page 22
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Small companies, big valuations?
Joseph Mariathasan looks at small-caps around the world after a long period of outperformance, and finds plenty of reasons to believe that current valuations remain reasonable
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Allocations to private equity increasing at European pension funds
Research shows growing divergence between European, US investors
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Emerging Market Equities: Sailing into headwinds
Top-down forces have been buffeting emerging markets for some years now, exacerbated by the threat of Fed ‘tapering’ in 2013. But Joseph Mariathasan finds these forces translating into stock-market performance and portfolio strategies in complex, often unexpected ways
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Emerging Market Equities: Wild frontiers
David Turner finds that illiquidity, political and ESG risks all conspire to put a limit on pension fund allocations to the high-growth potential of frontier markets
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Emerging Market Equities: India turns a corner
Joseph Mariathasan finds that political and central bank governance could be at a positive turning point in India, as could corporate governance at company level
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Emerging market equities – Buyers’ strike?
Cracks may be appearing in the great emerging consumer story. Martin Steward speaks to three managers that have scaled this edifice and offer different perspectives on whether it is time to jump off
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Emerging Market Equities: The dragon awakes
Joseph Mariathasan examines China’s Third Plenum, which some are hailing as a watershed towards a market-led economy
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Hedge Funds: Not just a lion at the gate
Liongate Capital Management understood from day one that hedge fund investing was more what you know than who you know. Ten years later, Martin Steward reports on how this became the institutional mainstream – and where it is going next
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Hedge Funds: Fit for use
Craig Baker sets out six areas for improvement in the institutional fund of hedge funds model
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Hedge Funds: Bottom-up on the up
Changes in market behaviour have created an alpha-rich environment that is great for stockpickers and dangerous for market-timers, write Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward
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Hedge Funds: Not such black boxes
David Turner looks at how transparency has improved in the hedge fund world, and what pension funds are doing to adapt to all the new information
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Hedge Funds: “We ask investors what they like”
After almost 10 years of talking to hedge fund managers, this is a first. Erich Schlaikjer, co-founder of the Cambridge, UK-based systematic managed futures specialist Cantab Capital, is showing me what his firm’s trading and research systems can do.
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Hedge Funds: Small is beautiful, again
Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward note that smaller hedge funds are enjoying significant new inflows for the first time since the financial crisis. Where is the money coming from?
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Global Equities: Winners and losers
European equities are not only about to benefit from some catch-up in the profitability stakes.
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Global Equities: Value gets volatile
Diverging 2013 performance shows Martin Steward that injecting cyclicality and value has increased volatility and downside
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Global Equities: Eye of the beholder
Joseph Mariathasan looks into the debate around how best to calculate the fundamental value of companies and markets
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Sovereign Bonds: Tough at the top
Martin Steward finds life getting tricky for even the best active European bond managers
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Sovereign Bonds: A wealth of opportunity
Martin Steward speaks with Stratton Street Capital, which believes a sovereign’s wealth determines the performance of its bond and currency markets
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Sovereign Bonds: The tip of an iceberg
Detroit’s bankruptcy grabs the headlines, but Christopher O’Dea draws attention to an even more significant muni bond development: pension-funding bonds issued by high-quality deleveraging municipalities
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Sovereign Bonds: Yielding more questions than answers
Some see recent bond-market sell-offs as the start of the long-awaited bear market in bonds – or at least a ‘normalisation’ of rates, while others point sceptically to weak global growth