All Asset Class Reports articles – Page 22
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Developed Market Sovereign Bonds: 'UniCredit's analysis is flawed'
Standard & Poor’s Moritz Kraemer responds to UniCredit’s paper on subjective bias in sovereign bond credit ratings
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Private Equity: Tailored solutions in vogue
The relationship between the largest private equity investors and their general partners is evolving as the demand for more specialised, bespoke portfolios grows. Joseph Mariathasan describes the landscape and the pitfalls it threatens for unprepared funds of funds and GPs
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Private Equity: Handing over the reins
Planning for a buyout firm’s future can be tricky and emotional, writes Jennifer Bollen
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Private Equity: Private equity titans, time to retire
Immense personal wealth and diversified, publicly-owned businesses give a certain type of private equity manager a free option at his LPs’ expense, argues Cyril Demaria
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US Equities: Let’s get together
Joseph Mariathasan looks at trends in corporate activity in the US market
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US Equities: No place like home
Joseph Mariathasan asks if the relative home bias of North American companies might be a shelter from the geopolitical and economic storms rattling international markets
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US Equities: How deep is your value?
Martin Steward looks at three US quality-value strategies, two of which exemplify the difference between ‘deep’ and ‘relative’ value and one whose profile belies any stylistic categorisation
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US Equities: Catching the technology wave
Joseph Mariathasan discusses where US technology companies sit in relation to a once-in-a-generation paradigm shift: the move from desktop to mobile and the cloud
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European Equities: What is Europe, exactly?
Investing in European equities sounds like a straightforward task. But as investors finally begin to look upon the region more favourably, Joseph Mariathasan finds that ‘investing in Europe’ can mean many different things
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European Equities: Transition management
As the market-leading stocks and sectors begin to rotate, Martin Steward finds the top manager positions occupied by those value managers that have maintained pace with their quality peers over the past three years
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Europe’s modest world-beaters
Cedric Durant des Aulnois argues that small-cap investors do not have to compromise on quality – and they can now also get it cheaper
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: The cycle turns
Dispersion among the top-performing European small-cap managers could split along ‘quality growth’ versus ‘quality value’, writes Martin Steward
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Put on a smart cap
Charlotte Moore weighs up the arguments for a range of ways to access smaller companies – approaches that all agree with common sense, but not always with one another
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Small companies, big valuations?
Joseph Mariathasan looks at small-caps around the world after a long period of outperformance, and finds plenty of reasons to believe that current valuations remain reasonable
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Asset Class ReportsAllocations to private equity increasing at European pension funds
Research shows growing divergence between European, US investors
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: Sailing into headwinds
Top-down forces have been buffeting emerging markets for some years now, exacerbated by the threat of Fed ‘tapering’ in 2013. But Joseph Mariathasan finds these forces translating into stock-market performance and portfolio strategies in complex, often unexpected ways
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: Wild frontiers
David Turner finds that illiquidity, political and ESG risks all conspire to put a limit on pension fund allocations to the high-growth potential of frontier markets
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: India turns a corner
Joseph Mariathasan finds that political and central bank governance could be at a positive turning point in India, as could corporate governance at company level
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging market equities – Buyers’ strike?
Cracks may be appearing in the great emerging consumer story. Martin Steward speaks to three managers that have scaled this edifice and offer different perspectives on whether it is time to jump off
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: The dragon awakes
Joseph Mariathasan examines China’s Third Plenum, which some are hailing as a watershed towards a market-led economy
