All Features articles – Page 29

  • Kai Braun
    Features

    Briefing: COVID-19 crisis shines light on private equity tech

    May 2020 (Magazine)

    It was five years ago that Partners Group’s disaster-recovery team began preparing for a crisis like the one that would shut down all but four of its 20 offices by the end of March.

  • Federal Reserve balance sheet
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    Fixed income, rates, currencies: Global economy under pressure

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    At the end of February, after a week that saw stock markets around the world plummet, US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell sought to calm fears, saying that the Fed would “act as appropriate” to support growth. 

  • US high-yield- market value versus credit risk
    Features

    Fixed Income & Credit: High-yield worries grow

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    Global high yield and loans still offer attractive returns but the worry is about the stage we are in the credit cycle

  • Credit at a crossroads
    Features

    Fixed Income & Credit: Credit at a crossroads

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    How will weak lending standards hurt credit investors in a global slowdown? 

  • Jane Gray headshot
    Features

    Fixed Income & Credit: Loan covenant high tide?

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    Fitch Solutions outlines just how far covenant terms have steadily shifted in borrowers’ favour – at least until coronavirus hit

  • Azad Zangana
    Features

    Briefing: Europe turns Japanese

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    Despite the more immediate concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic, the spectre of ‘Japanisation ’ casts a dark shadow over euro-zone investment markets. It is possible that the current crisis will supercharge the pre-existing trend for Europe to follow Japan’s economic and financial experiences.

  • Kevin Giddis
    Features

    Briefing: A safe haven

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    Treasuries, the yen, and gold all traditionally serve to harbour investors in times of stress. A closer look at the current demand for Treasuries, however, paints a complex world view with implications for financial markets. Yields suggest it might remain ugly for another decade. 

  • Amin Rajan and Anthony Cowell
    Features

    Research: The new benchmarks

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    Sustainability is set to become the gold standard of investing

  • Compounded active performance of five simulated portfolios
    Features

    Ahead of the Curve: The mega-cap conundrum

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    Last year was challenging for quantitative equity strategies with a large proportion of them underperforming their benchmark on a rolling one-year basis. There has, therefore, been a great deal of interest in understanding the shortcomings of quantitative portfolios over the same calendar year.

  • Gustavo Medeiros
    Features

    Fixed Income & Credit: Potential for adventures

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    Emerging-market local-currency corporate debt is under-explored by global investors

  • Bechmark Risk - April 2020
    Features

    Qontigo Riskwatch April 2020

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    * Data as of 28 February 2020.

  • Emerging Markets - Region and Sector
    Features

    Virtu Global Tradewatch April 2020

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    February 2020 data as of 6 March 2020

  • Net sentiment equities
    Features

    IPE Quest Expectations Indicator: April 2020

    April 2020 (Magazine)

    This months’ figures were collected before the successive stock-market slumps.

  • Joyce Chang
    Features

    Geopolitical risk: The new norm

    March 2020 (Magazine)

    Geopolitical risk is now  the norm and not the exception, and brings with it a rise in volatility,” says Joyce Chang, chair of global research at JP Morgan, adding: “This volatility has tended to create more noise than trend.”

  • emerging market assets
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    Emerging market outlook

    March 2020 (Magazine)

    Emerging markets have a knack for being in the headlines for the wrong reasons. They also stand out as sources of growth for investors who face low interest rates and muted economic performance in the developed world

  • Ole Buhl
    Features

    ESG: What drives ATP to divest?

    March 2020 (Magazine)

    Short of flying someone to Mexico City to knock on the door of the mining and transport company’s headquarters, the Danish pension fund had done all it could. Selling off its DKK13m (€1.7m) block of shares in Grupo México was not what ATP really wanted to do at the end of last year.

  • US dollars
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    Dollar/sterling: The road ahead for cable

    March 2020 (Magazine)

    The twisting path of the dollar/sterling relationship over 2020 will provide ongoing theatre, punctuated by moments of intensity

  • The trade war and Asia
    Features

    Ahead of the Curve: The trade war and Asia

    March 2020 (Magazine)

    The rivalry between the US and China looks set to dominate Asian affairs in the future and cannot be ignored by responsible investors. The escalation of tensions at the start of Donald Trump’s presidency led to an increase in trade barriers and impacted growth; now a temporary truce has been agreed but uncertainty remains, as do tariffs on Chinese exports to the US. The new bilateral agreement is a positive step, but investors should take a long-term view; the economic and strategic rivalry looks set to continue and some sectors are better placed than others to adapt to this landscape.

  • An integrated reporting framework
    Features

    Integrated reporting: Accounting goes sustainable

    March 2020 (Magazine)

     Combining conventional financial reporting with non-financial reporting in a single integrated framework presents challenges

  • raj thamotheram
    Features

    Long term matters: To investors who care about the climate crisis – act before COP26

    March 2020 (Magazine)

    Rather belatedly, we have a new president of COP26 in the form of Alok Sharma, former UK international development secretary. But this sorry saga seems quite symbolic – we know that we need to do something big but we can’t quite get our act together.