All Special Report articles – Page 97
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Special ReportTop 400: Active management - tipping the odds in your favour
The question of active versus passive management has long faced investors, argues Roz Amos
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Top 400: Diamonds and duds - what will shine and what will fail?
John Nestor reviews the results of the fourth AIMSE diamonds and duds poll and considers how views have changed
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Top 400: Hedge funds coming of age
The credit crunch is forcing a reckless teenager to become a responsible adult, according to Amin Rajan
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Quant: Quant surveyors
As the recent AXA Rosenberg episode revealed, systematic quantitative investment promises the ideal in transparency and integrated risk-management – as long as managers’ corporate governance is equally systematic. Martin Steward reports
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It’s still a man’s world
Nina Röhrbein finds out whether diversity on company boards help stave off crises by bringing fresh thinking and different skills?
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Quant: Down but not out
Each crisis delivers useful lessons to the quants world, writes Iain Morse. What did the last one teach us about the optimal conditions and most dangerous risks for model-driven strategies?
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Special ReportCredit: Yielding products, rising rates
Roy Kuo and Emily Upson run through the characteristics and recent performance of a range of yielding products, offering portfolio solutions for a rising rates environment
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Credit: X marks the spot
The hinterland between investment grade and high yield delivers an intriguing risk profile. But Martin Steward also finds that it has been changing rapidly
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Credit: Thinking beyond the benchmark
D William Kohli discusses the need for a broader opportunity set in a rising rate environment
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Quant: An alternative Aspect
Martin Steward talks to Martin Lueck about why systematic managed futures shone in 2008 while other quantitative strategies sank
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France: The impact of a shorter horizon
Alain Lemoine makes a gloomy assessment of the wider impact on French pensions reform and funding of the decision to drawdown on FRR
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France: Internalising investment
France’s Fonds stratégique d’investissement plans to increase its regional diversification in 2011 and establish a capital investment fund in Alsace. Stuart Todd assesses these and other goals
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France: How do you spell ‘engagement’?
Dominique Blanc and Samer Hobeika discuss the French approach to shareholder engagement
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France: Diversity embraced
Christine Senior reports on the shift away from sovereign debt as French insurers seek yield and reduce risk
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France: Learning the lessons of crisis
Jean-Pierre Grimaud discusses the importance of stability for the investment industry
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France: Continental drift
Richard Bruyère presents the results of the tenth annual I&F survey of the institutional marketplace in France
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France: The company and retirement
Nora Ouidir discusses corporate approaches to retirement and human resource issues in France
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Commodities: Grub first, then ethics
Passions run high and evidence is mixed. Nina Röhrbein finds pension fund investors often play safe when it comes to food futures
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Commodities: Energy revolutions
Forget renewables. Anthony Harrington finds that the technology that might really disrupt your portfolio’s traditional oil exposures – and much else besides – could be shale gas extraction
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Commodities: Water, water everywhere…
…any way to invest? Martin Steward ponders how to turn H2O into EUR, GBP and USD
