All Features articles – Page 11
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FeaturesMeasuring health impacts could expand ESG metrics
All companies have an impact on the world beyond just the profits for shareholders. Acknowledging and measuring these impacts in a quantitative manner enables them to be managed for the benefit of all and contributes to the creation of a fairer and more just society. The environment, social and governance (ESG) movement has raised the importance of such sentiments.
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FeaturesInvestors sceptical on Tokyo equity market reforms
In April, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) implemented its biggest overhaul in over 60 years in an attempt to attract foreign investors. However, many industry experts see the move as largely symbolic and believe more needs to be done to create a roster of high-quality companies with strong corporate governance practices.
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FeaturesFixed income, rates & currency: Markets grapple with inflation and slowdown
The global outlook for economic growth is deteriorating, with repeatedly revised economic forecasts pointing to ever-higher inflation and lower GDP growth. The far-reaching impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war, moving principally through energy and commodity channels, have exacerbated so many of the world’s existing pandemic-related supply-side bottlenecks, which had been gradually easing in the weeks and months before Russia invaded.
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FeaturesDerivatives: countdown to mandatory margin
From 1 September, a large number of pension funds and clients of asset managers will be required to start posting initial margin on their non-cleared derivatives exposures, a change that will have a big impact on how they conduct business. The problem is that many institutions may not be fully aware of the implications or what they need to do to prepare – and time is running out.
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: China treads a careful path
Since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 the Chinese Communist Party has not put a foot wrong domestically. It has pursued economic growth alongside social cohesion, entrenching its prime objective of staying in power.
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FeaturesAccounting: IASB shortlist of projects hits a snag
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Or so they say. March was supposed to be the month when the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) whittled down its shortlist of potential standard-setting projects for a final vote in April. But nothing ever goes to plan.
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FeaturesQontigo Riskwatch - May 2022
* Data as of 31 March 2022. Forecast risk estimate for each index measured by the respective US, World and Emerging Markets Qontigo model variants
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator commentary May 2022
Ukraine is slowly gaining the upper hand, while Russia is still unwilling to make concessions. Putin is trying to play his nuclear card, a dangerous move, making himself the major obstacle to stopping the appalling Russian losses in people and equipment. Meanwhile, Zelensky lost points by creating an issue with Germany when he can’t afford to lose points.
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FeaturesHealthcare investing: Get ready for the next pandemic
The world will have to collaborate on many fronts to ensure preparedness for the next global health crisis.
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FeaturesFixed income, rates & currencies: War and inflation dominate
While we watch horrible scenes of towns and cities under bombardment, their bewildered and bloodied citizens desperately searching for safety, the huge shockwaves generated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spreading rapidly far beyond both countries’ borders.
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FeaturesLonger lives lead to numerous societal challenges
“Demographics is the single most important factor that nobody pays attention to, and when they do pay attention, they miss the point,” management and pensions guru Peter Drucker once declared. The key issue is not only that people are living much longer, but that fertility rates are below the population replacement rate of 2.1 children per female everywhere in the world apart from Africa.
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FeaturesStrategically speaking interview: Redwheel’s new CEO
Last August, RWC Partner’s chief executive Dan Mannix left the company, and the head of business development, Tord Stallvik took over. Soon afterwards, the company rebranded as Redwheel – RWC was an acronym for Red Wheel Capital.
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The case for an EU consolidated tape
Liquidity. Equality. Fragility. With apologies to the French Republic, these three words almost act as a lodestone in discussions about a consolidated tape (CT) for EU securities. The need for such a tape is becoming more apparent than ever, but it could still be three years or so before it become a reality, according to Susan Yavari, regulatory policy adviser at the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the author of a detailed official position paper on the subject published in mid-February.
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FeaturesUkraine & Russia: Asset allocation and investing in a time of war
It is a well-known fact that geopolitical events have no lasting impact on financial markets. However, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to wage war on Ukraine has forced institutional investors to reassess their strategies. While stock market indices tend to recover fairly soon after the initial shock of a geopolitical event, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has potentially wide-ranging consequences beyond a sudden spike in volatility.
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: The future looks bright for African private equity
The Russian-Ukrainian war and its related global impact may have a mixed effect on economic recovery in Africa, which is being driven by worldwide economic trends such as elevated commodity prices, a relaxation of lockdowns, and increased global trade. With further increases in commodity prices having a positive impact, increased inflation and further possible roll-backs in globalisation weigh on the recovery.
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FeaturesDefining the precise scale advantages for DB pension funds
Most people working in the institutional asset management space have an intuitive understanding that the size of the institution, measured by total assets under management (AUM), has an impact on performance – that bigger funds tend to perform slightly better. On the other hand, there are plenty of stories of successful hedge funds that got too large and lost their way, unable to continue delivering on past success due to their size. So which is it? Do larger institutional investors outperform their smaller kin, or is AUM the proverbial millstone in terms of performance?
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Qontigo Riskwatch: April 2022
* Data as of 28 February 2022. Forecast risk estimate for each index measured by the respective US, World and Emerging Markets Qontigo model variants
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IPE Quest Expectations Indicator commentary April 2022
With a threat of nuclear war looming, Russia increasingly looking exhausted and desperate but unwilling to make concessions and a Russian default threatening, the world is again as dangerous as it was during the cold war. A default now cannot be compared with Russia’s de facto default in 1998.
