All Special Report articles – Page 63
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Risk diversification ‘on’
Increasing sophistication and understanding of risk premia is leading to new approaches to combine them in a portfolio
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Designed for DC
Best practice for defined contribution pensions inevitably involves well-designed default options. Multi-asset approaches are the best fit for most investors but views differ about how to best structure them
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Commentary: The DGF super brand
Diversified growth funds have become a core investment for many UK pension funds with strong demand from countries. Will Mayne defines the concept
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Illiquid approaches
Some of the world’s largest institutional investors have had great success in illiquid investments such as private equity, infrastructure and lending
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Multi-Asset Strategies: Apples and oranges
As multi-asset strategies have evolved, it has become less easy to assess and compare them on a like-for-like basis
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Multi-Asset Strategies: Adaptive approaches
Once, institutional investors were happy to set a strategic asset allocation, ahead of market timing and security selection
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Special ReportOutlook 2016: Time to take stock
The end of the year is the traditional time to take stock of the previous 12 months and to try to anticipate emerging developments.
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Outlook 2016: Weighing currency’s value
Currency movements are capable of wrong-footing even the experts. Yet many argue that there are enough predictable patterns to these movements to make currency a valuable asset class
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Outlook 2016: Regulation - Modified IORP still a headache
As a raft of financial directives continue to flow from the EU, two are raising the most concerns among pension schemes
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Outlook 2016: Are asset managers now banks?
Asset managers are replacing banks in the supply of credit to certain sectors of the economy. Does this increase systemic risk? Carlo Svaluto Moreolo investigates
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Outlook 2016: Will liquidity dry up in 2016?
A widespread anxiety about liquidity co-exists with trillions of euros pumped into the markets by central banks
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Outlook 2016: Euro-Zone Prospects - Trading block to growth
Heavily dependent on external trade, the euro-zone’s growth prospects are particularly linked to the fortunes of China
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Outlook 2016: Commodities - Winners and losers of slump
The fall in commodity prices since 2011 has depressed economic growth in commodity-exporting countries but boosted growth in manufacturing economies
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Investment Opportunities: Hope for a full pipeline
Will the COP21 global climate talks in Paris next month lead to a pipeline of renewable energy infrastructure investment opportunities? Carlo Svaluto Moreolo reports
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Special ReportDC/Hybrid Strategy - NEST
Judge’s comment: “NEST remains at the forefront of the defined contribution market in Europe with its innovative strategies and, predominantly, its risk approach.”
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Special Report: Currency - A dangerously underrated risk
Anthony Harrington finds that investors can easily overlook the foreign exchange risk that comes with investing outside of their own currency area
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Financial Markets: Europe still courting China
European financial centres are still keen to court China despite the country’s economic slowdown and recent market meltdown. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Special ReportBronze: Fixed Income - Bosch Pensionsfonds
Judge’s comment: “Innovative fixed income strategy given the fund’s objectives and the market it operates in, with a good level of diversification.”
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Special ReportGold: Best European Pension Fund - British Steel Pension Fund
Judge’s comment: “How British Steel manages to improve from year to year is baffling and beyond me. But it does and this is a seriously impressive organisation. With its pioneering LDI and notable cost controls framework, this is the scheme others should follow. A clear winner this year.”
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Bond bonanza beckons
China’s continuing reforms to open up its fast-growing bond market to foreign investors could make it the largest market yet for global investors, writes Tsering Namgyal
