Latest Special Reports – Page 68
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Special ReportEuro-zone recovery: Catching a tailwind
Euro-zone assets have generally performed well in recent years, but there are some substantial hurdles if their growth is to be sustained
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Top 400: Disruptive change - an end to the innovator’s dilemma?
The combination of technology and innovation like exchange-traded funds looks set to change some aspects of the asset management value chain, according to Amin Rajan and Subhas Sen
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The unique case of Greece
The tribulations of recent years have turned Greece into a unique case within the euro-zone
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Top 400: A better deal on fees
Fee structures are imperfect and may be poor value. Nick Sykes outlines ways they could be improved for institutional investors and investment managers
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Special ReportELTIFs: Kick-starting Europe's economic growth
European Long-Term Investment Funds are designed to help kick-start economic growth by broadening the range of investors in infrastructure and research projects
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Top 400: Managing talent in a new world
Tim Wright says agility and innovation will be crucial to attracting and retaining key personnel in the asset management industry
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Special ReportRegulatory environment still weighted against Europe's ABS market
The European market for asset-backed securities has ample potential but suffers as a result of an unfavourable regulatory regime
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Top 400: The fee music’s still playing – for now
The institutionalisation of European asset management and changing investor fundamentals could limit the future profitability of the asset management industry, says Alastair Sewell
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Euro-zone recovery: Insurance and repression
European insurers are finding ways to adapt to the prolonged period of low interest rates and unconventional monetary policy
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Top 400: Multi-asset – in search of opportunities
A complex and changing pensions market means responsiveness is key for asset managers, say Nigel Birch and Will Mayne
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Euro-zone recovery: SME Lending – Affairs of credit
Everyone wants to secure funding for small businesses, which has led to initiatives across Europe designed to take up lending slack where banks have pulled back
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Top 400: New perspective on equity strategies
Investors are waking up to the advantages of using equity strategies in portfolio construction to capture illiquidity, skill and style premia, according to Stuart Gray
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What is risk parity?
All theory is grey, dear friend /And green the golden tree of life. The words of Mephistopheles in the first volume of Goethe’s Faust distinguish academia from the attractions and contradictions of the real world
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Top 400: Mass market – a brave new world
Andy Masters and Richard Clarke argue that asset managers need to be more focused on the end consumer and develop a range of products suitable for multi-phased retirement
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Risk parity: The interest rate challenge
Risk parity managers say they are ready to meet the challenge of acute interest rate uncertainty
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The language of infrastructure
Frederic Blanc-Brude argues that a new data and monitoring framework will help investors improve their decision making on infrastructure investments
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Top 400: Time for compulsory stewardship
Asset owners and investment managers should be made to disclose their portfolio turnover and how they vote their proxies, according to Raj Thamotheram and Matthew Taylor
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Are risk parity funds staying true to their name?
There is a growing divide between the theory behind risk parity strategies and the investment products on offer
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Risk Parity Funds: Mixed performance despite low volatility targets
Risk parity funds have experienced mixed performance in recent years despite targeting low volatility
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Risk parity: Variations on a theme
Risk parity investing can be modified to work better in the current difficult environment
