All Special Report articles – Page 55
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Yen and renminbi: The big yen and yuan story
Policies being pursued by Japan and China for different reasons are behind the rising yen and the falling renminbi that are having significant effects on financial markets
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Special Report: Currency - Behind the strong dollar
Several factors have combined to boost the dollar’s performance, finds David Turner
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Multi-Asset Strategies: Can you beat it?
Investors have for years used a 60% allocation to equities and a 40% allocation to bonds (sometimes inverted) as a simple and informal benchmark for an investment strategy
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The analytics arms race
As the multi-asset investing market grows, the race is on to provide the superior analytics needed to understand portfolio performance, says Sebastian Ceria
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Multi-asset funds: Diversity among the diversified
Multi-asset funds encompass a wide range of strategies. Brendan Maton and Charlotte Moore profile three such portfolios
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Adjusting to China’s syndrome
East Asian economies are heavily plugged in to the region’s powerhouse and feel the shocks when it slips, but these countries are finding ways to cope, writes Rodrigo Amaral
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Financial Liberalisation: More access to Chinese assets
Florence Chong explores how China is opening up its bond and equity markets to foreign investors
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Asset Allocation: The 60/40 question
Joseph Mariathasan asks how multi-asset managers are seeking to prove their worth in a low-return, high-correlation world, when a 60/40 equity/bond portfolio looks hard to beat
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High Yield: A risk worth taking
Despite the inherent risks, pension funds are looking to high-yield debt and syndicated loans in their search for above-average returns, as Anthony Harrington explains
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Ircantec: Focusing on growth
The French supplementary pension scheme Ircantec’s plan to diversify its portfolio could be hampered by newly proposed regulatory requirements on asset allocation, says Gail Moss
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The fall and fall of interest rates
To understand the current low level of interest rates, it is necessary to see it as the culmination of a trend that goes back to the 1980s
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Euro-Zone: Unquantifiable QE
The effects of the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme are yet to be quantified, leading some to think of it as the world’s biggest ‘experiment’. Caroline Hay reports
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UK embraces multi-asset
While multi-asset fixed income strategies have been popular in the UK for some time, European investors are only just beginning to take notice, says Charlotte Moore
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Special Report Fixed Income Strategy: No more easy gains
What started as an emergency measure looks like it has become a permanent state of affairs.
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Church of England: Showing faith in private debt
Gail Moss explains why the Church of England Pensions Board is putting its faith in the US private-debt sector
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Universal-Investment: Weathering the challenges
Markus Neubauer examines how the clients of the Master-KAG provider Universal-Investment are managing their portfolios
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New rules for Spezialfonds: Pandora’s box of opportunities
New rules for Spezialfonds lending could be a huge boost to Germany’s chronically underfunded infrastructure sector, says Thomas Richter
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US Bonds: The only game in town
The US bond market is benefiting from negative interest rates in Europe and elsewhere. Christopher O’Dea reports
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Corporate Bonds: Investment-grade boost
Central bank action in the UK and euro-zone has boosted the investment-grade corporate bond market. Lynn Strongin Dodds examines whether this can continue
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Emerging debt attractions
Institutional investors have under-invested in emerging market corporate debt so far, but Joseph Mariathasan finds the asset class’s attractive fundamentals mean this may change soon
