All Briefing articles – Page 5
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Features
China: Caught in the crossfire
The investment world is at risk of being caught in the midst of a ‘geoeconomic’ conflict between the world’s main economic blocs
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Features
Briefing: Tide turning for ESG fixed-income
The supply of ESG-aligned bonds is increasingly underpinned by regulatory pressures and client demand for products targeting non-financial objectives. As the investable universe grows, so the number of funds and assets will increasingly find their way towards fixed-income ESG solutions. However, to strike the right balance between financial and non-financial returns investors should look for ESG-authentic leaders with good risk-return capabilities
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Features
Briefing: The sum of all fears
Three years on from the onset of MiFID II, market participants, governments and regulators are assessing its outcomes and considering adjustments.
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Features
Briefing: Active ways to prosper in EMs
On the battlefield on which active managers fought their passive enemies for investors’ custom, there was one patch of higher ground that seemed easier to defend – emerging market equities.
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Features
Briefing: Japan emerging from its invisible lockdown
Japan is all too often portrayed as being different from other countries. Not just distinctive in the obvious sense that every country has its own national peculiarities. Instead, somehow unique in a way that makes it stand out from every other country.
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Features
Briefing: Still a strong case for US stimulus
The next awaited US stimulus programme remains a mystery. Congress must agree on funding specifics, but the final composition of the Senate will be unknown until this month. Republicans and Democrats have been battling over spending priorities since COVID-19 struck last spring, with competing priorities.
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Features
Briefing: Feast or famine
With the end of the COVID-19 pandemic still out of sight, any forecast of the size of economic damage it will inflict has to be viewed with caution. Yet there seems to be a consensus that default rates on leveraged loans will stay elevated throughout 2021 and beyond.
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Features
Briefing: An unfortunate lack of ambition
The second Capital Markets Union (CMU) Action Plan of the EU Commission lacks ambition. This at a time when the EU Commission wants to set an industrial policy for the EU to bolster competitiveness in key sectors. It also comes shortly before the UK’s departure from the EU. Yet a vision of what the EU wants to achieve, by when and how, is missing.
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Interviews
Interview: Sorca Kelly-Scholte on the future of RPI
Sorca Kelly-Scholte, JP Morgan Asset Management’s (JPMAM) EMEA head of pension solutions and advisory, discussed with IPE.com editor Venilia Amorim how she thinks pension funds can plan for the road ahead, in light of the uncertainty over the future of RPI and whether or not it gets fully phased out.
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Features
Briefing - ILS: resilience despite the thrills
Institutional investors have piled into insurance-linked securities (ILS) with the goal of adding reliable returns and a touch of diversification to their investment strategies.
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Features
Briefing: Tail-risk hedging lessons from the corona crisis
The coronavirus crisis illustrates that equity collar strategies may still have a place for pension funds
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Briefing: A time to be calm and focused
The corona pandemic has become an emotional rollercoaster for investors. First, came the market collapse, followed by panic sales. Then, hot on the heels of the turmoil, normalisation and new stock-market highs.
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Features
Briefing: Germany finally issues green bonds
There was little doubt that the German finance ministry would eventually tap the green bond market. Germany is committed to reaching net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050.
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Features
Briefing: Which way will inflation blow?
Investors pondering the future course of inflation are scratching their heads – faced as they are with a powerful array of deflationary factors, opposed by a potent lineup of inflationary factors.
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Features
Briefing: Growth beyond COVID
The outlook for institutional investors may be gloomy, with the global economy in recession and interest rates stuck at extremely low levels.
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Features
Briefing: Timing is everything in distress
After an extended period in the wilderness, distressed debt funds – bereft of opportunities because of ultra-low interest rates and economic buoyancy – are back in the spotlight with large players coming to the market.
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Features
Briefing: The long march to deleveraging
Global debt reached a new record during the first quarter of this year, reaching 331% of GDP, or $258trn (€229trn), according to the Institute of International Finance, the global association of the finance industry.
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Features
The Renminbi: A matter of trust
Only a few years ago, there was much hype about the renminbi becoming the next significant reserve currency and potentially even threatening the dominance of the dollar.
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Features
Hedge funds: ‘Real life’ portfolio evaluation
Outlining an equal volatility-adjusted approach to hedge fund management
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Special Report
SWFs: Never waste a good crisis
Despite pressure on revenues from oil and gas, Arab sovereign wealth funds are taking opportunistic bets in foreign markets in the face of global economic turmoil