All Briefing articles – Page 8
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FeaturesBecoming a mortgage lender
More pension funds are eyeing residential mortgages as an asset class
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FeaturesBriefing: Emerging markets fail to catch up
Emerging markets have failed to increase their share of global investible market capitalisation since 2007
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FeaturesBriefing: Looking to active managers
Active management versus passive index tracking remains one of the most hotly contested questions in the world of investment management.
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FeaturesChina tech: Playing BATs versus FAANGs
Chinese tech firms offer exposure to rapidly expanding domestic markets
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FeaturesUS economy: Overpricing recession risk
Financial markets have suffered a nasty bout of indigestion since October. The interplay of sentiment and volatility induced widespread pessimism, with added concern that market tantrums could subsequently bleed into the real economy
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FeaturesCLO supply outstrips demand
Do reports of a growing wariness over collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) mean that the good times are over for the investment vehicle?
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FeaturesBriefing: Collateral challenges
Rising interest rates put collateral management strategies to the test
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FeaturesBriefing: Trade war, a primer
Protectionism is becoming more widespread despite the benefits of free trade being understood for more than two centuries
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FeaturesBriefing: MiFID II: a year on
The new rules are having a dramatic effect on the world of investment research
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What next for US Treasuries?
A consensus on the direction of 10-year US Treasury rates is not obvious, because the answer reverts to a further question: whose consensus? Strategists, economists and other informed professionals have a particular view. The market itself, however, expresses a more diffuse and different opinion.
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Macro Matters: Currency returns to the fore
Global tension means exchange rates will again become a key mover of investor decisions
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German Longevity: Are the tables turning?
The rate of increase in life expectancy in Germany appears to be slowing down
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Benchmarking: Redefining investment classes
A major GICS index methodology change seeks to reflect underlying market economics
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Turkey: Rethinking auto-enrolment
Despite generous state incentives in the Turkish auto-enrolment system, opt-out rates are high
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Liquid Alternatives: The long and the short of it
The long/short liquid alternatives universe is more hetreogenous than some realise
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UK: Shifts in longevity
Whether or not to insure liabilities via a buyout or buy-in has long been a decision which most defined-benefit pension funds need to consider. Buyout deals have become integral to the pension fund landscape.
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Macro Matters: Emerging tensions
Amid all the talk of deglobalisation, certain tenets of the world remain fixed in our minds. Key among these assumptions is the status of the dollar as the global reserve currency.
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Briefing: How to model a trade war
So how does one model the effect of further tariffs on a portfolio? This article shows how to construct a potential trade-war scenario and analyse the impact on a euro-denominated global multi-asset class portfolio
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Non-performing Loans: A market in full swing in Europe
A stockpile of nearly €780bn worth of non-performing loans weighs on the European economy
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Selection is key in EMD
Anxiety is growing about emerging market debt. US rate rises and the potential for a stronger dollar mean that EMD may be heading for turbulent times
