Investment Strategies – Page 18
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Still work to do on governance
Hedge funds still suffer an image problem, writes John Donohoe. Carne Global’s latest investor survey reveals the institutional investors’ governance concerns
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: A decade on the learning curve
Martin Steward spoke to Finnish pension insurance company Varma about its experiences at the cutting edge of absolute returns
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Features
Swiss challenge
Global custodians are finding Swiss accounting regulations a barrier to its custody and servicing market, writes Iain Morse
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Once bitten... twice shy
The year 2011 has been a good one for emerging hedge fund talent. However, prospective candidates are being put through their paces by cautious investors, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: A true alternative
Bainbridge Partners exploits the fact that some hedge fund strategies simply diversify better than others, finds Martin Steward
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Special Report
The shipping news
The shipping business would seem to be directly linked to the health of the world economy. Why would you want to invest as the world slows down? Lynn Strongin Dodds finds that it is not that simple
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Special Report
Turning Japanese?
Technical signals from the bond markets and fundamental economic parallels have spooked some commentators about the ‘Japanisation’ of the world. Anthony Harrington asks if we should be bracing ourselves for the inevitable ‘lost decades’
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Special Report
Forests into fixed income
Despite being relatively new to the fixed income market, green bonds offer responsible investors a good opportunity to invest sustainably. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Interviews
New entrant to European fiduciary management
Here in Europe, the joke says that British Airways is a pension scheme that owns a few planes. The US equivalent claims that General Motors is a social security fund with a sideline in building Buicks.
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Special Report
Too early to tell
It’s clear to everyone that globalisation is re-shaping the world economy. But Maha Khan Phillips asks questions of the consensus around which sectors will benefit
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Dose of fee realism
Hedge fund fees do seem to be coming down in aggregate, but Emma Cusworth finds that if you want good performance you might simply have to suck up those charges
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Special Report
Rich diversity
The bewildering variety of multi-asset funds can make them difficult to compare. But Martin Steward thinks that 2011 has revealed some useful patterns
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Special Report
SRI education must continue
A Eurosif study shows a lack of knowledge among European corporate pension funds is hampering greater adoption of ESG factors in their investment strategies, writes François Passant
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Carving a new niche
Hedge funds are booming – but funds of funds are not. Joseph Mariathasan outlines the ways in which the intermediaries are re-thinking their role
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Features
Cash in the attic
Squeezing a return out of cash can expose funds to unexpected risk. But Charlotte Moore suggests that using it for strategic optionality removes the need to take risk in the search for yield
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Interviews
Strategic agility
Nordic private equity house CapMan does not make things easy on itself. Its mission statement: “To be the best-performing European private equity firm”.
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Special Report
And what about Japan itself?
Clearly the view a fund manager takes of Japan’s short to medium term macro prospects has a strong determining influence on their view of Japanese equities. Simon Edelsten, senior fund manager of the Artemis Global Select Fund, likes the fact that neither Japan – nor the rest of Asia – has adopted the EU’s penchant for austerity, or seen their banks have to de-lever to the same extent.
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Harvesting risk premia
Dimitris Melas notes that institutional investors focus more on the selection of active managers than on the selection and combination of risk premia, despite growing evidence that risk premia contribute more to the long-term performance
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: An information edge
Few still believe that equity markets are efficient. But no-one thinks they are that inefficient, either. Martin Steward speaks to four asset managers who believe they have a proprietary information edge over the run-of-the-mill research process. Two exploit the wisdom of individuals; and two the wisdom of crowds
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Special Report
Currency: The world rebalances
Do not be surprised when today’s immense macroeconomic stresses find an outlet in global currency markets, writes Anthony Harrington. And if you can, ready yourself to take advantage
