Investment Strategies – Page 19
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Currency: The FX of turbulence
Currency alpha management is not only well-suited to turbulent markets, argues Jay Moore. It also responds well to stress testing against extreme scenarios
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Currency: The future (or not) of the euro
A strategically-placed relative has left Neil Record with the lowdown on how the euro crisis is perceived at the top table of European politics. Here’s what he learned
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Currency: Riding the ‘Redback’
China’s renminbi is set to become one of the world’s major reserve currencies. Philip Poole anticipates more supply of RMB-denominated bonds to foreign investors to fuel that project O
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Currency: The future of the renminbi
Routes other than ‘dim sum’ bonds might make more sense for exposure to China’s currency over the short term, suggests Hayden Briscoe
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Maintain concentration
Perhaps surprisingly, Joseph Mariathasan finds that well-managed active risk has paid off for global equity funds over recent years
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Global Equities: A different animal?
Edward Mott explores the role of private equity and venture capital in post-recession equity portfolio optimisation
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Public meets private
Infrastructure is highly visible and long term, so investors need to stay in control of ESG concerns. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Features
(Really) high yields
Dramatic repricing has opened up opportunities in high-yield, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds
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Currency: A game of relativity
The Swiss National Bank’s most recent intervention brought blessed relief to Switzerland’s pension funds. Emma Cusworth assesses the trade-off between capitulation to haven hunters and rising inflation
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Currency: The real thing?
Using emerging market currencies to exploit the ‘Balassa-Samuelson’ hypothesis is a seductive idea, writes Martin Steward. But it might not work in a new world of ‘inflation tolerance’
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Currency: Coming together in a crisis
Far from prising the euro-zone apart, Frank Velling argues that current traumas will bind members closer together
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Interviews
Clear signals in the fog
When IPE first spoke with Ian Heslop about the post-crisis refinements that Old Mutual Asset Managers (OMAM) had made to its quantitative equity models, it was June of 2011. The sun was shining – literally, and (for quants) metaphorically, too.
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Features
Catastrophic year is a signal to buy
More pension funds are investing in insurance-linked securities. Daniel Grieger and Kristina Poliakova argue that recent natural catastrophes have made them even more attractive
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Global Equities: Beta made better
Martin Steward asks why some investors are treating long/short equity as an ‘equity replacement’ – and what practical challenges face those who do so
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Features
A central Asian hub
Kazakhstan’s pension reforms are a success and the country has a sophisticated financial set-up, writes Iain Morse
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Still as safe as houses?
Denmark’s mortgage bonds have never defaulted – in 215 years. Rachel Fixsen reports on why questions are suddenly being asked
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Do ESG strategies hurt performance?
Iordanis Chatziprodromou asks if there are identifiable risks associated with general ESG-driven investment strategies
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Sovereign Bonds: Old certainties crumble
Politics, not economic fundamentals, will determine the future of the developed world’s bond markets. Joseph Mariathasan finds this causing fixed income managers untold headaches
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Sovereign Bonds: Over-priced, over-exposed…
…over my dead body? Despite other options, Martin Steward finds pension funds struggling to let go of core government bonds
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Sovereign Bonds: Dodging bullets
The US downgrade did not rock the foundations of the US Treasury market, and might even have sent a healthy signal to Washington’s elite, writes Emma Cusworth
