All Investment Briefing articles – Page 14
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Features
Race for solutions picks up pace
Incumbent managers have a natural advantage with mature pension funds in the provision of solution-type services, finds Pádraig Floyd
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Asset Class Reports
Dangerous liquidity
Following another summer of high-yield bond market volatility, Emma Cusworth asks whether ETFs are to blame for credit markets getting riskier
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Features
Teenage years
Fiona Reynolds faced a protest storm soon after coming on board at PRI as executive director. Jonathan Williams caught up with her 18 months into her job
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Features
Miracle redux?
Investors are hoping Mexico’s reforms spark another growth surge. As Christopher O’Dea reports, the best play may be in the local bond market
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Features
Minimum variance, maximum duration
The prevalence of highly-indebted companies and sectors in minimum-variance portfolios could expose investors to interest rate risk, warns Mehdi Guissi
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Features
Not the destination but the path
Vassilios Papathanakos and David Schofield explain why it’s easier to estimate volatility than forecast returns, and why it matters for superior returns and better risk management
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Features
Vital statistics
Headline numbers may obscure the fact that smarter business models are reversing outflows in the fund of hedge funds industry. Emma Cusworth looks at the trends behind the figures
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Features
Financing the real economy
The credit funds industry is evolving fast to meet the needs of the world’s SMEs. Claudio Bocci and Gianmatteo Guidetti provide a survey of the products on offer
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Features
Burmese days
Rachel Fixsen finds mixed views about Burma as an investment destination for European pension funds
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Features
Sounding boards
Charlotte Valeur argues that fund governance should be improved with more pro-active communication between investors and boards, independent of the investment adviser
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Features
Investing in a slow-growth world
Demographic trends probably mean slower economic growth in the developed world. Katherine Davidson argues that a thorough understanding of demographics will be essential for generating alpha in this environment
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Features
Fuelling risk
Investors need to consider the extent to which their portfolios are exposed to rising climate-change risk, writes Mark Nicholls
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Features
Inflated expectations
Investors often assume that inflation protection comes as standard with infrastructure investments. Vivian Nicoli warns that it depends on a number of variables and may come at the price of lower expected nominal returns
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Special Report
Near the cliff edge
Elisabeth Jeffries asks whether investors will be discouraged by an end to specific renewables targets for EU member states
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Features
Rising sun or false dawn?
Daniel Ben-Ami looks back on a year of ‘Abenomics’, and finds optimism in the early hours of a new day for Japan’s economy and markets
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Features
A sovereign story: the Argentine experience
Rani Mina and Mark Stefanini argue that precedents set by the Argentine default experience could well be applied to future sovereign defaults including in the euro-zone
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Features
Illiquid but not non-transparent
Cyril Demaria argues that private equity illiquidity need not prevent the creation of a model for vintage return prediction that can reduce the prudential capital costs of the asset class
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Features
The US Treasury’s New Year gift
The US Treasury brings to market its first new product in nearly 20 years. Stephanie Schwartz reports
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Features
From recycle to growth cycle
Brian Bollen asks whether a pick-up in corporate and economic activity can awake the loan market from a torpor of refinancing
