Fixed Income – Page 57
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News
Automation to facilitate buy-side empowerment, liquidity – Euronext
Regulation also seen as major driver behind changing trading environment for institutional investors
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ERAFP to shift strategy after France lifts investment restrictions
Civil service pension fund to increase equity allocation after government allows 40% exposure to non-bond investments
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Features
Asset Allocation Fixed Income, Rates, Currencies: The big picture
When the Fed embarked upon its first round of quantitative easing five years ago, there were fears of an inflation time bomb. The Fed has already purchased its last lot of Treasuries under QE3, but is still executing regular MBS purchases, as forward inflation expectations in the US and Europe are as low as they have been for years.
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Experts question supply side's ability to meet DC retirement needs
David Blake, Stefan Lundbergh call for government intervention to fix ‘last-game-in-town’ DC products
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IPE Awards: Asset allocation key when making 'in-house' decision
Pension fund managers debate reasoning for utilising in-house investment expertise
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IPE Awards: Asset managers should look at wider investment horizon (video)
Christian Böhm, chief executive at APK, speaks at the IPE Conference & Awards 2014 on pension fund, asset manager relationships
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Switzerland's Publica now considering active only for 'niche' investments
Country’s largest pension fund adds risk via fixed income portfolio rather than equities
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NewsATP sets sights on non-traditional asset classes with new unit
Special Situations unit to seek investments outside traditional asset classes, target ‘least sought-after’ holdings
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: Corporates come of age
A structural advantage is baked into emerging market corporate debt, but exploiting it is dangerous without intense credit work. Caroline Saunders finds a market coming out of childhood but not yet an adult
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: Contagion spreads
Achilles Risvas assesses the potentially devastating knock-on effects of a fall in bond prices and a flight from credit
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
There is an uncomfortable sense that many market outlooks and forecasts are too sanguine about future risks and the course of US interest rates. Some asset classes are already being severely buffeted.
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: On borrowed time?
Warnings about China’s growing debt exposure abound. Beverly Chandler finds market players confident that the system is robust – but emphasising the importance of continued reform and rebalancing
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: Building the emerging world
Bank disintermediation, and the opportunities it presents, is as strong a theme in emerging infrastructure markets as developed. But Jennifer Bollen finds the similarities may end there
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Special Report
Special Report – Emerging markets: Buying opportunity, or structural setback?
Over the past six years, few investment themes have invited such gyrations in sentiment, or generated so much contention, as the emerging markets. After an initial sell-off during the worst of the 2007-08 financial crisis, they clearly outperformed through 2009-11.
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Asset Class Reports
Interview - DMO:We want to hear from you
Robert Stheeman, CEO of the UK Debt Management Office, tells Taha Lokhandwala about the importance of ongoing dialogue with institutional investors
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Special Report
Special Report – Emerging markets: Emerging markets in transition
The rise of the emerging world, and especially China, has transformed the global economy over the past generation, while the past decade has transformed investors’ attitudes to its markets. Daniel Ben-Ami assesses where we are in an ongoing transition
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: Safety first?
Claims that emerging market investors herded into quality companies in the first half of 2014 raise concerns about troubled times ahead. But as Lynn Strongin Dodds finds, some of that trade has already unwound – and there is a strong counter-argument that investors were, in fact, looking for growth rather than safety
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: Fed up with volatility
The Federal Reserve-sparked ‘taper tantrum’ of 2013 revealed how sensitive emerging market currencies could be to interest rates set in the developed world. Caroline Saunders asks whether that volatility told us more about investor sentiment than fiscal fundamentals
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NewsMark-to-market obligation a 'disease', says Switzerland's AHV
Swiss regulator provides insight into new risk assessment approach for pension funds
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NewsIlmarinen sees long-term increase in equity weighting
Third quarter overall return dips to 5.7%, as effects of crisis in Ukraine weigh on portfolio, but reforms allow mutual to boost equities exposure by third
