Latest Special Reports – Page 84
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Top 400 Asset Managers: Diamonds and duds – a poll apart
Roger Price-Haworth reviews the results of the sixth AIMSE International diamonds and duds poll, and considers how views have changed
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Top 400 Asset Managers: Will the quants strike back?
Fabio Cecutto argues that a simpler quant manager could be a smarter quant manager.
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Top 400 Asset Managers: Is smart beta all that smart?
There is no Holy Grail in investing, and new ideas have their limitations, argues Amin Rajan
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Top 400 Asset Managers: Bonus caps for fund managers
Proposals to cap UCITS managers’ remuneration will be counterproductive, according to Nitin Mehta
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Top 400 Asset Managers: Taxing financial deals
There is a compelling case for excluding investment funds from the scope of the financial transaction tax, write Camille Thommes and Susanne Weismüller
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Top 400 Asset Managers: The client is (becoming) king
Jackie Alvarez argues that more efficient use of technology can help asset management firms as they seek to better serve clients
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Top 400 Asset Managers: The challenges posed by a rapidly changing pensions landscape
Nigel Birch and Nils Johnson see an increasing bifurcation between product specialists and solution providers in the asset management industry
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Top 400 Asset Managers: East Asia shows growth potential
East Asian markets are likely to experience high growth potential, according to Aymeric Poizot, with multi-asset and international funds most likely to attract growing flows
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Top 400 Asset Managers: Swiss work on their kerb appeal
Peter Grünblatt asks whether recent measures in Switzerland – known primarily for private money – can raise its profile and appeal as a centre of asset management
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Un-mixing the market ingredients
Breaking down asset class into their respective common factor risks seems to yield real analytical insights. Martin Steward asks what investors should do in practice with those insights
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Theory and practice
A survey conducted in September 2011 by Allianz Global Investors suggests that at least one-third of European institutional investors see the merit in analysing portfolios by risk categories as opposed to asset classes.
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Optimising the risk factors
One of the most popular ways of implementing the insights that come from analysing portfolios according to risk factors rather than asset classes is ‘risk parity’.
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Portfolio dynamics
Jepser Kirstein sketches the profound changes in institutional portfolio design over recent years – and notes that a better understanding of risk enables investors to increase as well as decrease it
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: 21st-century portfolio construction
Dan Mikulskis makes the case for a risk-parity approach to constructing portfolios of liquid risk premiums
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Villain with a role to play?
If you want to maintain decent returns with genuinely diversified risks, some practitioners insist that leverage is a necessity. Joseph Mariathasan finds out why, and looks at the counter-argument from multi-asset strategists who disagree
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: ‘It’s not overly quantitative’
Look at how SAUL’s financial reports represent its asset allocation and you quickly realise that it does not think about that allocation in terms of asset classes, but in terms of strategies designed to meet well-defined objectives related to its funding position. There is the common split between ‘risk-reducing’ assets ...
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: ‘Our objective is clear’
Often when an investor starts to explore ‘smart beta’ – alternative weighting systems for equity portfolios and benchmarks – it signals some dissatisfaction with traditional active management, traditional market cap-weighted benchmarks, or both. Not so in the case of the Rabobank Pensioenfonds.
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Special ReportRisk & Portfolio Construction: A smart-beta framework
Martin Steward speaks with Lombard Odier’s Jérôme Teiletche, co-author of a new paper that compares alternative equity portfolio construction techniques within a common framework
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Revenge of the quants
The ‘risk-factor’ revolution offers the tantalising prospect of getting exposures for which investors used to pay alpha fees as bargain beta. But Brendan Maton notes that it raises as many questions as answers when it comes to investable product
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Don’t let the tails wag the dog
Vincent Berard and Daniel Dimitrov explore ways to introduce tactical allocation tilts into a strategic portfolio using tail risk and alternative betas
