Latest Special Reports – Page 61
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Portfolio Construction: Calculated risks
Factor investing promises to outperform both passive and active management. Carlo Svaluto Moreolo discusses the issue of implementation
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Factor investing: Pension funds in two minds
Factor investing might be a relatively new approach but some pension funds are already employing it with success. Others are looking on with interest
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Railways Pension Scheme: World-class transformation
Gail Moss investigates how the UK Railways Pension Scheme transformed its investment strategies to cope with the low-return environment that has followed the global financial crisis
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Pioneers: Better be smart
Lynn Strongin Dodds finds that as the strategy becomes more popular, pioneers in the alternative-indexation field are warning investors to avoid being just performance chasers
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Origins of the smart beta species
Andrew Clare, Stephen Thomas and Nick Motson trace the roots of smart beta that began as a test of the Efficient Market Hypothesis in universities in the 1970s
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Index Providers: Benchmark bonanza
The rapid growth and popularity of new of multi-factor smart beta strategies are fuelling the creation of a plethora of indices
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Investment Options: Deciding factors
Investors looking to enter the world of factor investing are faced with an array of products from simpler beta strategies to actively managed quant funds
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Factor Alignment: Tailor with care
The wide range of uses to which factor investing can be put means investors need to ensure the approach and methodology are suitable for the intended strategy
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Special ReportThe French quant connection
Brendan Maton explores the pre-eminence of engineering in French elite education and the extent of its success in application in asset management
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At the core of smart beta
Charlotte Moore attempts to pin down the characteristics at the heart of factor investing
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Special ReportInsurance-Linked Securities: Taking the market by storm
Insurance-linked securities are gaining popularity as a diversifying asset class, but what are the available strategies, underlying risks and costs?
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Case Studies: Stability through diversity
Rachel Fixsen speaks to PGGM and AP3, two pioneer investors in the insurance-linked market
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Catastrophe Risk: Earth, wind and diversification
Diversification across catastrophe risks between different territories and natural perils is essential, according to Anthony Harrington
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Private Placements & Speciality Lines: Sound private arrangements
Diversifying into aviation, marine and energy risks through private placements makes sense from a risk-and-return perspective, writes Anthony Harrington
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Who’s afraid of life risk?
Investors in insurance-linked securities (ILS) generally underwrite non-life risk, but sometimes insurers are willing to offload life risk as well, finds Carlo Svaluto Moreolo. What can investors expect from entering the life-risk market?
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Special ReportUK Defined Contribution: Mastering the master trusts
Master trusts are attracting most of the UK’s auto-enrolment savings. We look at the market’s regulation, its sustainability and what could change
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UK DC: Large funds get in on the act
We examine the strategies of two UK defined contribution funds
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UK DC: Providers face payout challenge
UK product providers are grappling with how best to pay out income in retirement
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UK Pension Freedoms: Focus shifts to retirement
The pensions freedoms legislation has focused schemes’ attention on at-retirement provision
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DC & Trustees: Code of conduct warning
Gill Wadsworth reports on The Pension Regulator’s new draft code of conduct for trustees, which raises the bar for improving the pension product and the quality of governance
