All Features articles – Page 40
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Fixed income, rates, currencies: Challenges still lie ahead
While the US mid-term elections saw the Democrats regain the House of Representatives, trade policy remains in the hands of the White House. Trade tensions, between the US and China in particular, will remain to the fore. President Trump’s aggressive trade policy is already having a global impact with declining purchasing manager indices indicating corporate hesitation in future plans.
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Ahead of the curve: Sporting a safety jacket in a market of weak protections
Funds that take on loans that have been rejected by banks are likely to be problematic for investors
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Credit allocations: Time for a re-balancing act
Investors are ignoring indicators that should encourage a more selective approach to credit
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Accounting Matters: The audit F-word
Increased incidence of accounting fraud raises questions about UK audit standards
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FeaturesChecking back on 2018
In January, in this column, I highlighted areas to watch for 2018. In the spirit of holding myself to account, it’s time to see how they panned out
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator: December 2018
At times we aim to find the mountains within the molehills of manager expectation shifts. In our defence, any curvature is worthy of recognition. Sometimes, changes (or lack thereof) come along that are worth diving into. In the prior survey, it was the four-month lack of change within the high sentiment toward US equity markets to rise that was significant. During the current period, hyperbole aside, change has come.
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German Longevity: Are the tables turning?
The rate of increase in life expectancy in Germany appears to be slowing down
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FeaturesSlowing longevity may be a dip
Demographic trends tend to be outcomes rather than causes of broader social shifts
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FeaturesTime to take control of climate-change investing
One of the most common complaints we hear regarding the concept of sustainable investing is the lack of specifics involved
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FeaturesThe real problem with Italy’s budget
Italy’s budget is not the hallmark of modern economic policy. It is a toxic mixture of measures
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Benchmarking: Redefining investment classes
A major GICS index methodology change seeks to reflect underlying market economics
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Turkey: Rethinking auto-enrolment
Despite generous state incentives in the Turkish auto-enrolment system, opt-out rates are high
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FeaturesMarket approaches nudged off course
Sweden’s experience with the Premium Pension system shows how arduous dismantling of poorly constructed architectures can be
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Liquid Alternatives: The long and the short of it
The long/short liquid alternatives universe is more hetreogenous than some realise
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Fixed income, rates, currencies: A hawkish Fed spooks all
Not many predicted the equity sell-off at the start of the fourth quarter, and there is still puzzlement as to what triggered it
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Ahead of the Curve: The risk premium of downturns
Alternative risk premia strategies can be helpful for institutional investor portfolios through diversification and risk reduction
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Accounting Matters: To virtually toss a coin, or not
Accountancy industry flummoxed by the existential status of computer code
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UK: Shifts in longevity
Whether or not to insure liabilities via a buyout or buy-in has long been a decision which most defined-benefit pension funds need to consider. Buyout deals have become integral to the pension fund landscape.
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Macro Matters: Emerging tensions
Amid all the talk of deglobalisation, certain tenets of the world remain fixed in our minds. Key among these assumptions is the status of the dollar as the global reserve currency.
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FeaturesWaiting for the next downturn
The current global economic expansion continues more-or-less unabated but the potential causes of the next downturn seem clear
