Latest Special Reports – Page 81
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Currency Management: Below the volatility surface
Lorenzo Naranjo and Carmen Stefanescu discuss the value of extracting foreign exchange rate expectations from FX option prices
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Currency Management: Side effects of short duration
The key active currency strategies of carry and momentum come into their own in a rising-interest-rate environment with greater dispersion of interest rate differentials.
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Currency Management: Keep calm and carry on?
Consultants hope that a healthy volatility is returning to FX markets to lure back pension funds, writes Angela Henshall. But does the strategy debate still need to move on?
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Stress-testing the water
Nina Röhrbein investigates water-related investment opportunities, which are now starting to attract institutional investors
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German Asset Management: Seeking urgent clarification
New regulations on credit ratings due diligence could prove challenging for investors and asset managers alike, according to Nina Roehrbein
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German Asset Management: One step at a time
Nina Roehrbein outlines institutional investors’ asset allocation intentions and behaviour
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German Asset Management: Defiant growth in the face of hostile legislation
Germany’s Spezialfonds have survived the latest legislative challenge of incorporation within the legislation implementing AIFMD, writes Till Entzian. They remain institutional investors’ preferred vehicle with record inflows in 2012 and AUM that should soon cross the €1trn mark
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German Asset Management: Stepping out in new shoes
Nina Roehrbein asked Michael Fuss about the latest reorganisation of Deutsche Bank’s asset management activities
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Real Assets: The real risk from real assets
What is a ‘real asset’? And why would an investor want it?
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Real Assets: Sheltering under a roof
Property is limited in its ability to hedge inflation but it can certainly play a role. Rachel Fixsen and Lynn Strongin Dodds report on the diverse strategies to consider
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Real Assets: Pricing powers
Jennifer Bollen explores claims that infrastructure can offset inflation and asks if infrastructure portfolios can be optimised to protect against inflation
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Real Assets: Seeing the forest for the trees
A slow housing market during the financial crisis certainly hacked away some of timber’s appeal. But Joel Kranc finds that the long-term potential remains strong
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Real Assets: Performing in the real world
How well have direct investments in real assets performed over the long term? Martijn Cremers outlines the latest research, and challenges some assumptions about inflation protection and diversification
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Real Assets: A raw deal from raw materials?
Poor performance is causing some investors to question why they got involved in commodities. But Martin Steward finds that now could be just the wrong time to sell
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Real Assets: Staying tuned
Martin Steward found a different take on recent investor mood music around the asset class and a robust case for allocation when he spoke to one of the largest commodities managers
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Real Assets: The ultimate real asset?
Daniel Ben-Ami considers the fundamentals behind gold and what they mean for its role as a portfolio allocation
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Real Assets: Price to earnings
Helen Fowler looks at how an equity portfolio could be optimsed for inflation sensitivity
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Real Assets: Understanding inflation shocks
Kurt Winkelmann and Raghu Suryanarayanan model asset returns under inflation shocks as a first step to designing genuinely inflation-sensitive portfolios – itself the first step towards broader macro-sensitive portfolios
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Real Assets: No real growth
In the aftermath of QE, inflation-plus multi-asset funds seemed like an idea whose time had come. Charlotte Moore asks why they failed to catch on
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Are loyalty shares a game-changer?
Nina Roehrbein asked Mirjam Staub-Bisang about sustainable investment in Switzerland
