All Special Report articles – Page 85
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Top 400 Asset Managers: Outcomes revolution in investment management and pharmaceuticals
Mitesh Sheth outlines what investment managers can learn from the transformation taking place in the pharmaceutical industry
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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: 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: ‘The wake-up call was 2008’
In April 2010, PGGM decided to build its own managed account platform (MAP) using know-how and technology from veteran Lyxor Asset Management. It had been investing in hedge funds for its clients since 2003 – they account for about 3-5% of total assets.
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The Euro-Zone: ‘Whatever it takes’?
It is almost a year since Mario Draghi’s calming words for the euro-zone, but Daniel Ben-Ami reminds us that they only buy time for much more difficult fundamental reforms
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The Euro-Zone: A dangerous mis-diagnosis
Michael Howell argues that austerity is the wrong solution for the euro-zone, and that bad debts need to be socialised or aggressively written-down to free-up seized credit markets
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: The only way is up?
Jennifer Bollen looks into what rising bond yields would mean for risk-parity portfolios
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Time to diversify
Investors diversify across asset classes, risk factors and investment styles. Maha Khan Phillips asks if trading time horizon brings anything extra to the process
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The Euro-Zone: From imminent catastrophe to exuberant recession
One of our six European chief economists’ views, from BNP Paribas Investment Partners’ William De Vijlder, sums up a theme of this month’s special report: “Depending how one looks at it, a lot or very little has changed in the last nine months.”
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Beyond microfinance
Nina Röhrbein finds evidence for a sea-change in impact investing with more varied products in developed as well as emerging economies
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Always in style
Four or five equity-investing ‘styles’ appear to be systematically rewarded over time. Maha Khan Phillips asks if it is possible to use them to diversify a long-only portfolio
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Taming alpha, harnessing beta
Rachel Fixsen looks at how a more sophisticated understanding of hedge fund risks is changing the way investors integrate these strategies into their portfolios
