Investment
Stuck in the middle
01 May 2013
The mezzanine-debt opportunity has not gone away. But Martin Steward finds that success will probably depend on both greater focus and flexibility
Choosing the middle way
01 May 2013
René Biner offers a 21-year data set that reveals surprising facts about historical loss rates in European mezzanine debt – and the advantages of vintage-year diversification
Once upon a time in the East
01 May 2013
It may not quite be cowboy capitalism, but a showdown is due in China, writes Gary Greenberg
It’s a war out there
02 Apr 2013
Anthony Harrington finds optimism among active currency managers, and that a top-down discretionary approach might be best-suited to surviving and thriving through the ‘currency wars’
The business of uncertainty
02 Apr 2013
Lynn Strongin Dodds takes a look at a sector beset by uncertainty over regulations, profitability and dividends
The EM lending gap
02 Apr 2013
Bank lending to emerging markets is falling sharply – but David Creighton writes that the growth in bond issuance isn’t filling the lending gap
Yielding results
01 Mar 2013
Ultra-low bond yields and high dividend yields suggest low-risk investors should consider equity income funds. Joseph Mariathasan looks at the options
Banks back in favour
01 Mar 2013
Fund managers are overweight banking stocks for the first time since 2007. But Maha Khan Phillips finds that not everyone is convinced that now is the time to buy
Contagious junk?
01 Feb 2013
Speculation that European downgrades could squeeze EM corporate bond issuers is overblown, finds Martin Steward
The correlation myth
01 Feb 2013
Patrick Burke d’Orey argues that factor analysis shows that
correlations are not at all-time highs – and that even in 2008 there was wide dispersion in pair-wise factor correlations
AIFMD: the rush to regulate
01 Feb 2013
With its mid-year implementation deadline looming, Giuseppe Rumi and Giorgio Tosetti update us on the state of play for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
Australia: gateway to Asia?
02 Jan 2013
It is right on Asia’s doorstep, but James Dunn finds that outside the big resource names there is surprisingly little Asia exposure in Australia’s stock market
Don’t be surprised by inflation
02 Jan 2013
Nicholas Johnson, Berdibek Ahmedov and Ronit Walny argue that now is the time to build a real asset bucket in diversified portfolios
The inflation trade-off
02 Jan 2013
Hedging against unexpected inflation can be costly. But Karsten Jeske and Anjun Zhou argue that active management can shift the efficient frontier in investors’ favour
While inflation and inflation...
Shaking up high yield
01 Dec 2012
Considering the trend to combine loans and high-yield bonds in the same products, Martin Steward finds the sub-investment grade landscape changing and new opportunities becoming apparent – especially ...
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