Investment – Page 22
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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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FeaturesBriefing: Hybrids come into their own
Back in the days when sailors relied on sails, they used to dread the doldrums – that zone near the equator where trade winds converge, generating windless weather.
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Briefing: Six insights on PE
Considerations for private equity investors in light of the coronavirus pandemic
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: Value investing – bruised, but not broken
The COVID-19-induced market crash of 2020 has battered investors, and in particular the fans of value investing. In the first quarter, value lagged growth by nearly 14% in the US and 13% globally, exceeding quarterly shortfalls at the trough of the global financial crisis. These losses are second-worst among all quarterly outcomes in over four decades, eclipsed only by the runaway tech bubble in the fourth quarter of 1999, as growth soared and value stalled.
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InterviewsStrategically speaking: Dimensional Fund Advisors
“Implementing the great ideas in finance for clients” is the stated mantra of Dimensional Fund Advisors’ founder and executive chairman David Booth. But at times of market stress and volatility, such as this year and in March in particular, even the most sophisticated and long-term-focused investors can question the validity of great ideas.
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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
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator June 2020
In the EU, statistics for both contagion and death by COVID-19 are still diminishing. Relaxing restrictions typically causes a short recurrence. The UK and Sweden are behind the curve.
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InterviewsStrategically speaking: GQG Partners
As an employee-owned boutique asset manager, GQG Partners is inherently more resilient than many other investment firms, according to chairman and CIO Rajiv Jain
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: Can the system win in EMs?
Systematic investment models have been commonplace in equity markets. Can they generate returns in emerging market debt?
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FeaturesBriefing: COVID-19 crisis shines light on private equity tech
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.
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Briefing: A close look at active credit
Research suggests credit mutual funds and hedge funds are not delivering outperformance
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator May 2020
Using last month’s model of the statistics on daily new cases as an early indicator and daily case mortality as evidence of policy change, the 21 April situation looks like:
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FeaturesBriefing: Europe turns Japanese
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.
