All Equities articles – Page 78
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News
BlackRock sees low rates and possible EM comeback for 2014
Equity bull market can continue on the back of earnings growth
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Global Equities: Winners and losers
European equities are not only about to benefit from some catch-up in the profitability stakes.
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Global Equities: Value gets volatile
Diverging 2013 performance shows Martin Steward that injecting cyclicality and value has increased volatility and downside
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Global Equities: Eye of the beholder
Joseph Mariathasan looks into the debate around how best to calculate the fundamental value of companies and markets
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Norway oil fund becomes active investor, joins Volvo nominating committee
NORWAY – Strategy shift announced as fund reveals quarterly returns of 5.4%, boosted by equities.
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US Equities: It’s a gas
The hydraulic fracturing revolution could re-shape the US economy – and US equity portfolios with it, writes Joseph Mariathasan
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US Equities: Growth – but at what price?
US equity managers’ performance has been determined by a long period of convergence between value and growth strategies. Martin Steward outlines these characteristics in four portfolios and asks if this era is coming to an end
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US Equities: Too big to grow?
No company can grow its earnings forever, but drawing the ‘ex-growth’ line is almost impossible. Joseph Mariathasan delineates the characteristics of pro-growth mega-caps from the US equity market
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European Equities: Is there value in the periphery?
The most troubled countries in Europe appear to be turning a corner. Joseph Mariathasan looks at the opportunities in their equity markets, and asks if investors should go for quality or the more abundant domestic-focused and cyclical stocks
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European Equities: Debating ‘quality’
Martin Steward finds three strategies, each with impressive longevity, illustrating three very different interpretations of ‘quality’ in European equities
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Hungry, growing, focused
In a world obsessed with the safe havens of multi-national mega-cap cash machines, Joseph Mariathasan revisits the case for smaller companies
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: So many stocks, so little time
Joseph Mariathasan considers the resource demands inherent in making the compelling global small-cap opportunity manageable
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Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Punching above their weight
Martin Steward takes a tour of some world-beating European companies with four leading small-caps managers
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Emerging & frontier equities – Tactical and strategic
As slowing growth depresses emerging market valuations, Joseph Mariathasan argues that this might be the time to adjust strategically for the new, long-term growth and risk paradigms
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Emerging & frontier equities – The great melt-up
Capital flows into emerging markets suggest that valuations could be about to end their two-year slumber, argues Michael J Howell
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Emerging & frontier equities – A turn in the cycle
There is a tussle between ‘quality’ and cyclicality among the top strategies in emerging market equities. Martin Steward looks at how three portfolios are shaping up for a possible turn in risk appetite
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Emerging & frontier equities – The private market complement
Mark Mobius outlines why private equity is different in emerging markets from in developed – but also different from your existing public emerging markets exposure
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€1.5bn pension fund for dentists to divest one-third of equities
NETHERLANDS – Scale of equity holdings posed ‘considerable risk’ to scheme, study shows.
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Special Report
Risk Managed Equities: Theory and practice
Low-volatility portfolios seem, empirically, to outperform high-volatility portfolios, and there are plenty of theories to explain why. But Lynn Strongin Dodds finds practitioners tinkering with the pure expression of this insight because lowering volatility risk results in other risks popping up in its place
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Risk Managed Equities: More than just excess return
If the low-volatility ‘anomaly’ did not exist, would pension funds still have risk-management uses for these strategies? Rachel Fixsen investigates
