All Asset Class Reports articles – Page 19
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Asset Class ReportsEuropean market volatility to continue for weeks – Blue Sky [updated]
Greek repayment of European Central Bank loan on 20 July ‘crucial’, CIO says
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Grexit and euro-zone ratings
Greece’s exit from the EU could cause other countries to follow, and ultimately lead to the destruction of monetary union
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Asset Class ReportsBuybacks briefing: Eating their own cooking
In the past few years, companies from many sectors have found a single new favourite investment – their own stock
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Asset Class ReportsEuro-zone sovereign bonds: A parallel world
Regulation continues to push European pension funds to invest in euro-zone government debt at increasingly unattractive yields
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Euro-zone sovereign bonds: State of the nations
QE helps but only reform can resolve the euro-zone’s problems, according to David Zahn
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Asset Class ReportsPre-listing Support for Private Companies: Joining the ‘elite’
London Stock Exchange’s Luca Peyrano talks about its Elite programme for late-stage private companies and finds that it is preparing to spread its influence across Europe
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Asset Class ReportsPrivate Equity: Alternative investment structures
Both general and limited partners are striving to break free of traditional fund structures to find more flexible and efficient ways to commit to private equity
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Asset Class ReportsSwitzerland’s AHV tenders CHF500m global equity portfolio
First-pillar fund announces tender worth more than half of current small-cap exposure
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Asset Class ReportsOil price impact on high-yield
The oil price fallout in high-yield has so far been contained within sub-sectors of US energy and migh have opened up energy sector value opportunities
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High Yield: US issuers, euro spreads
A substantial spread differential is attracting US investment-grade issuers across the ocean to issue bonds in euros
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High Yield: Oil, banks and rates
Martin Steward finds the diversity of high yield reflected in three very different kinds of risk run behind similar-looking headline exposures
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European equities: The stock-pickers return
How can European equity portfolio managers find genuinely idiosyncratic stock risk amid the current top-down noise?
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European equities: Recovery or retrenchment?
Martin Steward finds European equity managers disagreeing on how to position for the business cycle
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Cheap oil and weak euro: Impact on European equities
Joseph Mariathasan considers the likely effects of dramatically cheaper oil and a weak euro on European earnings and equity market prices
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Investing In Investment Grade Credit: A widening spread
Joseph Mariathasan finds that the divergence of USD and EUR corporate bond performance tells us a lot about how badly Europe’s economy is lagging that of the US
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Investing In Investment Grade Credit: Problem solving
Forthcoming solvency rules led many insurers away from equities towards corporate bonds just in time to dodge the financial crisis. With yields low and spreads tight, but the Solvency II ghost still at the feast, Joseph Mariathasan looks at what they are doing now
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Investing In Investment Grade Credit : Improved credit rating?
The financial crisis threw the spotlight on rating agencies. In particular, the failures in sub-prime asset-backed securities (ABS) that were seen as the catalyst that unleashed the global maelstrom of 2007-09 called into question their methodologies for rating structured products.
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Investing In Investment Grade Credit: Too much reliance on quick and dirty signals
Ratings agencies were given far too much authority in the era of de-regulation in order to encourage more cross-border and non-professional investment, argue Paolo Di Caro and Belmiro Oliveira. Removing their judgements from financial regulation is a belated recognition of the damage that was caused
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Investing In Investment Grade Credit: New year’s resolution
The end of the de-leveraging cycle could signal a comeback for senior debt issuance in 2015. But Charlotte Moore identifies the new ‘TLAC’ regulation as the truly significant factor for the long-term shape of bank capitaL
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Investment Grade Credit: Securing liquidity
Banks may no longer be able to make markets in non-Volcker-compliant CLOs. We look at what this means and why it could be a particular problem for European structures
