Latest Special Reports – Page 94
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Currency: The future of the renminbi
Routes other than ‘dim sum’ bonds might make more sense for exposure to China’s currency over the short term, suggests Hayden Briscoe
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Currency: A game of relativity
The Swiss National Bank’s most recent intervention brought blessed relief to Switzerland’s pension funds. Emma Cusworth assesses the trade-off between capitulation to haven hunters and rising inflation
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Currency: Coming together in a crisis
Far from prising the euro-zone apart, Frank Velling argues that current traumas will bind members closer together
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Currency: The real thing?
Using emerging market currencies to exploit the ‘Balassa-Samuelson’ hypothesis is a seductive idea, writes Martin Steward. But it might not work in a new world of ‘inflation tolerance’
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Public meets private
Infrastructure is highly visible and long term, so investors need to stay in control of ESG concerns. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Special ReportGermany: Kandlbinder 2011
Investor faith in Spezialfonds continues after the highest year of inflows since 1998, writes Till Entzian
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Germany: Active and domestic
Nina Röhrbein reviews a recent study on Spezialfonds demand from the investor’s perspective
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Germany: A new driver
In July, Thomas Richter took over as head of the German asset management association. He tells Barbara Ottawa he wants to improve the industry’s image in retirement provision
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Germany: Investing in investors
Martin Steward asked Michael Klimek about his company’s innovative co-operation model in investment management
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Germany: Lone wolf
Martin Steward meets a manager offering an unusual combination of small-cap and absolute-return option strategies
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Germany: Long-term growth
The overall DAX pension funding level has risen slightly, according to Thomas Jasper and Alf Gohdes
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Do ESG strategies hurt performance?
Iordanis Chatziprodromou asks if there are identifiable risks associated with general ESG-driven investment strategies
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Fiduciary Management: Who’s watching the watchers?
Specialist overseers have a crucial role to play for pension funds using fiduciary managers. But the trustees themselves must watch the watcher, writes Brendan Maton
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Fiduciary Management: What’s wrong and what’s right
It seemed so full of promise, says Peter Kraneveld. But was fiduciary management just a fad? Did it ever get off the ground?
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Fiduciary Management: Opportunity knocks
Asset managers should recognise fiduciary managers as less of a threat and more of an opportunity, says Nigel Birch
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Fiduciary Management: Slow burn
A few early adopters have embraced fiduciary management in the UK. Gill Wadsworth asks whether they were wise to do so
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Pharmas in better health
Although improving, the pharma sector still has social and environmental challenges to address. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Securities Services: Fund administrators gear up for change
In a nascent market where there is everything to play for, private equity fund administrators are gearing up for a host of regulatory and market changes, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Securities Services: Big is becoming beautiful
The traditional, independent boutique hedge fund administrator will feel the pressure of progressive onshoring and regulation, reports Iain Morse
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Securities Services: Security threat
Iain Morse reports on the avalanche of regulation heading the way of securities lending
