All Special Report articles – Page 96
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Portfolio Construction: Risk as a profit centre
Managing and monitoring tail risk is not just about insuring against extreme losses. Boryana Racheva-Iotova describes the potential for expected tail loss measures to feed into tactical portfolio optimisation where variance is traditionally deployed
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: Hedge fund ALM
The 2008 crisis showed how liquidity mismatches can undermine apparently robust hedge fund portfolios. Peter Meier and Jann Stoz argue that measuring returns autocorrelation can enable investors to assess mismatches using only fund of fund-level information
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: The changing asset allocation framework
Stacy Cuffe, Lisa Goldberg and Frank Nielsen describe the move from asset-class allocation to risk-based allocation, and the problem of ‘risk-grouping’
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: Preparing for all probabilities
Emma Cusworth discusses strategic asset allocation weights adjusted for the economic cycle
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A tailor-made trend
Nina Röhrbein reports on a recent surge in demand for sustainable indices, but questions whether they match client needs
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Measuring social impact
Work needs to be done to standardise the measurement of the social impact of investments. Michele Giddens warns against oversimplifying the question
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The future of cleantech
Investors in the cleantech industry are not just funding the development of environmentally conscious business, argues Paul Corren. While the technology is developed to do that, it is also focused on reducing costs and improving efficiency
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Quant: Man vs Machine
Andrew Kaplan offers his reflections as a fundamental value investor who found himself working at a ‘quant shop’
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Credit: Steady as she goes
Even Europe’s most sophisticated pension funds took a sober view of the greatest credit value opportunity of all time, finds Lynn Strongin-Dodds
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Special ReportCredit: At the cliff edge
An IPE snap poll suggests that even at the bottom of the nastiest bear market and the top of the longest bull market in history, portfolio positioning is far from simple. Martin Steward reports
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Quant: Integrated circuit
What happens when a big, traditional asset management company sets out to diversify its risk and revenue streams by acquiring a smaller team of successful quants? Rob Job, head of business development at quants specialist PanAgora Asset Management, outlines his firm’s model of an operating committee with “business-oriented people” like ...
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Quant: Of arms and the market
High frequency trading not only borrows military technology, it also looks like an arms race on a global liquidity battlefield. Stuart Baden Powell asks if innocent bystanders are getting hurt
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Credit: Anatomy of a crisis
Joseph Mariathasan takes us on a tour of the crash and recovery, asks where bond investors should be looking next – and reminds us that credit is never, ever, a free lunch
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Quant: All in the numbers
Anthony Harrington asks what went wrong for quants during the crisis, but also questions the received wisdom that ‘all quants are the same’
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Top 400: Leading soundbites
IPE questioned CEOs, CIOs and other senior figures in investment management
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Top 400: Non-financial risks in the European fund management industry
Samuel Sender discusses non financial risks in asset management and outlines some ways in which their effects can be countered
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Top 400: Towards a unified code of conduct
A universal code of conduct for asset managers will raise confidence among investors, argues Nitin Mehta
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Top 400: The consumer rules
Charles Muller assesses recent EU legislative developments aimed at enhancing consumer protection in asset management products
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Top 400: Balancing compliance with business growth
Flexibility is the key to overcoming the threat to growth caused by an abundance of new legislation, argues John Mayr of SimCorp
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Top 400: Clients and distribution
Peter Ellis outlines a four-point business structure for asset managers
