All Features articles – Page 49
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Asset Allocation: Economics remains buoyant
Global macroeconomics are generally supportive all round – with buoyant business sentiment, rising investment spending and low unemployment
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FeaturesAn Asian rethink is overdue
Everyone is, at least to some extent, a product of their past. It is hard to break from the habits picked up over our lifetimes
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Hybrids: Best of both worlds
Preferred securities offer high coupons and high yields compared with most purebred bonds
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FeaturesInterview: Joachim Wuermeling, Deutsche Bundesbank
The workings of central banks remain a mystery to many despite a shift towards more transparency over the years
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Carbon footprints: Only so deep
Stakeholder initiatives and regulation have encouraged the take-up of carbon footprinting but the practice has limitations as a measure of risk
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FeaturesCheer up, it might not happen
Investment committees have been pleasantly surprised by a fairly benign asset growth period from the Trump election onwards
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Diary of an Investor: A weak link
As an investment professional I am used to traditional risk categories like equities, interest rates, inflation and the like. Now it seems we will have to add information security risk to that list
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FeaturesThis time is not different
The financial markets continue on their remarkable bull run despite facing many threats
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FeaturesTime to rethink liabilities
As the institutional world focuses more on a long-term approach to asset portfolios, it is high time regulators allowed a similar approach to liabilities
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator October 2017
Despite rising geopolitical tensions, there was no corresponding rise in negative sentiment in the most recent survey period. That does not mean there were no changes in sentiment trends; only that shifts were mostly slight
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Ahead of the Curve: The rise of the cloud corporates
Digitalisation has profound implications for how corporates do business. It affects the way goods or services are invented, produced, marketed and consumed
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Asset Allocation: Economic growth holds steady
After a quieter summer for capital markets than in previous years, relieved risk assets remain popular. Economic growth has maintained a healthy pace with inflation yet to seriously surprise to the upside
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China’s MSCI inclusion widens the assets horizon
The addition of China A-shares to the MSCI Emerging Market index is symbolically important for China and could lead to improvements in regulation and corporate governance
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Diary of an Investor: Who bears the cost?
Sometimes I look back fondly on the simpler good old days.
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Briefing: FRC under fire on company law
Has the UK FRC failed to enforce Section 172 of the Companies Act on directors’ duties?
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Briefing: Proper plan design is way forward
International pension plans involve complex questions of structuring and compliance
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Private Equity: Buying in a seller’s market
Private equity has outperformed the public markets for the past five years and institutional investors have been ramping up allocations
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Portfolio Construction: Themes for defensive investing
Global uncertainties and disruptions call for more care when building a defensive portfolio
