Latest Special Reports – Page 69
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Risk parity cost: The price of protection
How much should a risk parity strategy cost?
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Tail risk parity
Risk parity approaches can be redesigned to tackle the possibility of extreme market events
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Risk parity and commodity investing
Joseph Mariathasan assesses the role of risk parity strategies in commodities
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Risk parity strategies making inroads in DC
UK pension schemes are increasingly attracted to risk parity funds. Are trustees and members have enough information to make informed decisions?
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Special ReportThe Technology Sector: Potential in the exponential
The cost of computer processing power has decreased exponentially over recent decades, a trend we are all familiar with when we compare the clunky IBM PCs of the 1980s or 90s with today’s smartphones
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Technology: The Third Industrial Revolution
A number of fast-moving technological trends seem to be spreading the importance of ‘tech’ beyond IT and into every corner of our lives and our economy
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The Internet of Things
The technology mega trends of ‘Big Data’, robots and drones, sensors, wireless communications and machine intelligence all come together in the industrial theme that is the ‘Internet of Things’
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Technology: European Venture Hubs
As London gets pushed into fourth place by Beijing as a venture capital centre, we ask what is required to create Silicon Valley-type hubs in Europe
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Technology: Late-Stage Fundraising
There has been a sudden jump in the number of technology-based companies that have raised equity privately at $1bn-plus valuations, often with no sign of an IPO to come
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Technology: Biotech
Biotech firms are reaching tipping points in science, business models and sales that should consolidate their position as the leading sub-sector in healthcare
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Cyber Security in Asset Management
In an increasingly mobile, cloud-based digital world, the old model of thick walls around a centralised information keep is out of date
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Technology: University Venture Capital
In its narrowest form, university venture capital has raised a couple of billion dollars a year, mostly in the US and UK
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Financial Services Technology: Tech transformer
Technology is transforming financial services across the board
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Credit: A change in dynamics
Remember covenant-lite loans? By 2009, risk-averse investors exercised huge influence over issuers and were able to obtain high levels of protection in the high-yield market
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Credit: Bond & Loan Convergence
Investors’ continued search for performance has changed the dynamics of the European high-yield market
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Credit: Financial Sector High Yield
Since the financial crisis the high-yield universe has been flooded with bank debt, thanks to downgrades and increasing subordinated issuance
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Credit: Corporate Activity & Debt Supply
The market has been suffering a shortage of loan supply, and even a pick-up in M&A and LBO activity might not be enough to reverse it
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Credit: Private Placements & SMEs
Europe’s private placement markets have so far been the preserve of larger, investment-grade borrowers. But there are signs that credit-hungry smaller companies may finally be getting a look in
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Credit: Standardising European Private Placements
One way to bring investors to the projects that are willing to pay sufficient yields might be a pan-European private placement market
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Credit: Private Placements in Germany
Germany has one of the longest established private placement markets in Europe, but bank lending is still dominating the finance arena
