All Features articles – Page 27
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator September 2020
US COVID-19 figures are receding, to the extent that Brazil has taken over as the world’s worst managed country. A number of western European countries are experiencing a minor rebound, likely because of holiday travel. India has suffered a high death toll but this is partly a reflect of its huge population.
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FeaturesThe 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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FeaturesPerspective: Trouble in Lykkeland
The decision to appoint Nicolai Tangen, a hedge fund owner, to the position of CEO at Norges Bank Investment Management has proved controversial
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FeaturesInvestment Strategy: Towards sustainable portfolio theory
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1990 Nobel prize in Economics given to Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe and Merton Miller. IPE is marking this in several ways. The first event took place at the IPE annual conference in Copenhagen in December 2019, with a panel discussion following on from the showing of a delightful video. The video was based on a few days that TOBAM CEO Yves Choueifaty and I spent with Markowitz in his office in San Diego in June of that year and showed Markowitz’s charm and humility despite his great achievements.
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FeaturesHedge funds: ‘Real life’ portfolio evaluation
Outlining an equal volatility-adjusted approach to hedge fund management
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FeaturesEU sustainability focus shifts
EU sustainable finance policy-making began with a vengeance in 2018, when the European Commission unveiled and embarked on its Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth. Two years later, the Commission is preparing to adopt a new, “more ambitious and comprehensive” sustainable finance strategy.
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FeaturesFixed income, rates, currencies: Dismay sets in
As lockdowns ease, particularly in the northern hemisphere and the Antipodes, economic recoveries get underway. Given the exceptional circumstances, economic forecasts and predictions may show little consensus, or potentially be wrong, the puzzling US payroll announcements for May being a vivid example.
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Research: The rise of climate investing in passive funds
COVID-19 is a devastating reminder of the fragility of life on Earth. It will be a key defining force of change in our age, alongside global warming.
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FeaturesLong term matters: Risk calls for universal investors
I’m looking for a senior executive from a major institutional investor who has “systemic risk” in their job description.
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Briefing: The unbearable lightness of investing
Open the newspaper. Any newspaper. Read the front page and then the money pages. Absorb, assimilate, repeat. After half a dozen goes, a pattern is clear.
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FeaturesStrategically Speaking: Asoka Woehrmann, DWS
DWS has just unveiled a new, simplified global structure. CEO Asoka Woehrmann explains how the reorganisation will allow the firm to focus on its key business lines
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: Liquidity has been the litmus test for China’s bond market
It is no safe haven, but China has provided bond investors with important shelter through the storm
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Accounting Matters: Controversy over sponsor rebates
In 2014, staff at the International Financial Reporting Standards Interpretations Committee (IFRS IC) – the body responsible for developing guidance on the application of IFRSs – recommended the approval of an amendment to its asset-ceiling guidance.
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator July 2020
Global statistics indicate that while new cases of COVID-19 are rising, case mortality is stable at about 4,000 per day. The situation is in hand, but the danger is not over. First, the Americas, dominated by the US and Brazil, are confronted by rising case statistics. Second, there are signals of a rebound in autumn, both in theory as medical experts embrace the thought and in practice, as the figures in Iran show. Third, the equality protests increase the chances of a second wave.
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: Media, markets and investing in a better world
Hans-Jörg Naumer, director global capital markets and thematic research at AllianzGI, and B. Burcin Yurtoglu, chair of corporate finance at WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management Through our analysis of the impact of media coverage, we not only demonstrate that news can lower or raise financing costs; the results also ...
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FeaturesFixed income, rates, currencies: Unprecedented times
According to a Wall Street Journal blog, the word “unprecedented” was used in 395 of the publication’s articles in the past three months. Also popular were massive, enormous, staggering and eye-popping
