All articles by Daniel Ben-Ami – Page 10

  • Special Report

    Special Report - Securities Services: Minority report

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    As deadlines for mandatory reporting of OTC derivative trades under EU rules pass, Daniel Ben-Ami finds a fair amount of confusion and evidence of non-compliance

  • Special Report

    Risk and Portfolio Construction: A corner turned

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    The consensus is that 2012 saw the trough of the 30-year downdraft in interest rates. Daniel Ben-Ami tests the strength of this conviction and describes the scenarios that could threaten it

  • Special Report

    Africa: A work in progress

    May 2014 (Magazine)

    Daniel Ben-Ami looks at North Africa and finds that, while pursuing the positive stories associated with Egypt may still be something of a gamble, Morocco offers a less risky way to exploit some similar themes

  • Features

    Rising sun or false dawn?

    March 2014 (Magazine)

    Daniel Ben-Ami looks back on a year of ‘Abenomics’, and finds optimism in the early hours of a new day for Japan’s economy and markets

  • Special Report

    Central & Eastern Europe Investment: Eastward flows

    January 2014 (Magazine)

    Emerging Europe is looking ever more attractive to foreign investment flows, writes Daniel Ben-Ami. But should investors look east or south, to manufacturing or to retail?

  • Special Report

    Real Assets: The ultimate real asset?

    October 2013 (Magazine)

    Daniel Ben-Ami considers the fundamentals behind gold and what they mean for its role as a portfolio allocation

  • Special Report

    The Euro-Zone: ‘Whatever it takes’?

    June 2013 (Magazine)

    It is almost a year since Mario Draghi’s calming words for the euro-zone, but Daniel Ben-Ami reminds us that they only buy time for much more difficult fundamental reforms

  • Special Report

    Asia reorientates

    January 2013 (Magazine)

    Sino-Japanese tensions over some tiny islands in the East China Sea are a salutary reminder that fast-growing Asia’s many geopolitical flashpoints can erupt suddenly and with meaningful economic impact. Daniel Ben-Ami delineates the risks – but finds them difficult to manage

  • Special Report

    Currency Management: Yen and now

    November 2012 (Magazine)

    Through the 1990s and most of the 2000s the Japanese yen funded a host of the world’s most lucrative carry trades. Daniel Ben-Ami examines whether recent fixes mean that the euro has already shuffled off its role as ‘the yen for the 2010s’