All Briefing articles – Page 8
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FeaturesBriefing: Deep tensions threaten EU vision
This is not a commentary on the UK within or without Europe. Brexit has been a compelling distraction but it is one macroeconomic strand in a complex world. The overwhelming coverage has also moved attention away from key internal tensions within the European project.
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FeaturesBriefing: Coping with lower for much longer
German institutional investors have shifted their asset allocation due to low bond yields
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Briefing: Give credit to CDS indices
DB pension funds could benefit from synthetic credit exposures provided by credit default swap indices
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FeaturesBriefing: The cliff-hanger of European banks
It has been a bad decade for European financials, with share prices still a fraction of their pre-crisis highs
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FeaturesBriefing: Sri Lanka after the bombings
The tragic Easter Sunday bombings have devastated tourism, a key plank of the economy
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FeaturesChina: To be or not to be
Investors are divided on whether to classify Chinese equities as a distinct asset class
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FeaturesBecoming a mortgage lender
More pension funds are eyeing residential mortgages as an asset class
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FeaturesBriefing: Emerging markets fail to catch up
Emerging markets have failed to increase their share of global investible market capitalisation since 2007
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FeaturesBriefing: Looking to active managers
Active management versus passive index tracking remains one of the most hotly contested questions in the world of investment management.
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FeaturesChina tech: Playing BATs versus FAANGs
Chinese tech firms offer exposure to rapidly expanding domestic markets
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FeaturesUS economy: Overpricing recession risk
Financial markets have suffered a nasty bout of indigestion since October. The interplay of sentiment and volatility induced widespread pessimism, with added concern that market tantrums could subsequently bleed into the real economy
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FeaturesCLO supply outstrips demand
Do reports of a growing wariness over collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) mean that the good times are over for the investment vehicle?
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FeaturesBriefing: Collateral challenges
Rising interest rates put collateral management strategies to the test
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FeaturesBriefing: Trade war, a primer
Protectionism is becoming more widespread despite the benefits of free trade being understood for more than two centuries
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FeaturesBriefing: MiFID II: a year on
The new rules are having a dramatic effect on the world of investment research
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What next for US Treasuries?
A consensus on the direction of 10-year US Treasury rates is not obvious, because the answer reverts to a further question: whose consensus? Strategists, economists and other informed professionals have a particular view. The market itself, however, expresses a more diffuse and different opinion.
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Macro Matters: Currency returns to the fore
Global tension means exchange rates will again become a key mover of investor decisions
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German Longevity: Are the tables turning?
The rate of increase in life expectancy in Germany appears to be slowing down
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Benchmarking: Redefining investment classes
A major GICS index methodology change seeks to reflect underlying market economics
