Investment Strategies – Page 20
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Asset Class Reports
Sovereign Bonds: Sustainable sovereigns will pay their way
Balazs Magyar shows that environmental and social, in addition to fiscal sustainability, have had a material effect on sovereign bond returns
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Interviews
Happy in its own little world
With new funds springing up or existing ones growing, the winds seem to be blowing favourably again for cleantech investments.
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Interviews
Focus and flexibility
Few can claim to have been investing in emerging markets for 130 years. But Martin Currie & Co was helping to finance the North American railroads in the 1880s, when the US occupied the spot that China occupies today. That pioneering spirit lived on; it made its first Japanese investments in the 1960s, opened an office and a fund in China in 1997, and rolled out its first hedge fund – long/short Japan – in 2000. A new strategy partnership with Singapore’s APS Asset Management looks set to be a leading independent A-share active equity business.
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Features
Ukraine’s stock exchanges pepare for rationalisation
Iain Morse explains why the former member of the Soviet bloc has such a complicated system and why it is difficult to change
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Special Report
Pharmas in better health
Although improving, the pharma sector still has social and environmental challenges to address. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Special Report
Securities Services: Security threat
Iain Morse reports on the avalanche of regulation heading the way of securities lending
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Special Report
Securities Services: Light me up
The ‘trade at’ rule sparks heated debate about ‘best price’ concepts and the road that equity market trading reforms should take, reports Richard Hemming
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Special Report
Securities Services: Sourcing global equity liquidity
Equity market fragmentation is a significant challenge to executing large blocks of stock with minimal market impact, writes Edward Pennings. At the same time, it provides an opportunity for those with a firm grasp on navigating this new landscape
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Special Report
Securities Services: The lowest ebb
Greece’s financial services markets are at rock bottom. Iain Morse assesses the domestic custody market in the face of current tribulations
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Ugly duckling no more
Emerging market debt is a fast-maturing asset class that is converging with the global bond universe. But Joseph Mariathasan finds managers struggling to break out of top-down country-risk constraints
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Perfect timing?
Peter Marber re-explores averaging strategies for entry into emerging markets
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Special Report
Securities Services: Big is becoming beautiful
The traditional, independent boutique hedge fund administrator will feel the pressure of progressive onshoring and regulation, reports Iain Morse
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Special Report
Securities Services: Fund administrators gear up for change
In a nascent market where there is everything to play for, private equity fund administrators are gearing up for a host of regulatory and market changes, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Features
The long and short of it
With the deep-value trade over and macroeconomic volatility abundant, Lynn Strongin Dodds assesses the case for absolute return in credit
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Special Report
Securities Services: What’s lacking with infrastructure
Infrastructure can generate high administration costs because of non-standard valuation, benchmarking and performance measurement, finds Emma Cusworth
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Interviews
Initiative focused
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has learnt lessons from the past. Losses incurred during 2007-08 by five of its fixed income funds, which were marketed as conservative strategies, led to lawsuits filed by among others the Houston Police Officers’ Pensions System and Prudential Financial.
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Special Report
Driving forward
Niall Mills discusses the relationship between responsible investment and the inflation-linked income generated by infrastructure assets
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Debt: Going multi-asset
First it was equity, then bonds – and most recently investors have been exploring emerging market currencies. Martin Steward asks if it pays to bring the three together
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Special Report
Curbing corruption
Nina Röhrbein reports on how the investment industry is guarding against the recent rise in corporate corruption
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Interviews
Setting sail for calmer waters
By the time Jeremy Baskin took the helm of AXA Rosenberg, its previous CEO, Stéphane Prunet, had spent 13 months steering the widely-venerated quant house, with great steadfastness, through the worst storm ever to engulf it.
