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Equities – Are Paris-aligned benchmarks a climate gamechanger?
Inflexible annual carbon reduction targets and weak data can lead to flawed decision-making
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Equities – Fundamental managers on the search for quality and growth
At a time of high volatility in markets, bottom-up selection based on equity fundamentals is as relevant as ever, but managers remain challenged to find resilient companies
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Credit: Inflation and the bond markets
Risks look likely to be building in credit as central banks wreak collateral damage on economies in their bid to tame inflation
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Quant managers: back with new weapons
As investors show renewed interest in value strategies, quant managers look for better uses of alternative data
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Quant managers: Quoniam’s Nigel Cresswell
Liam Kennedy spoke to Quoniam Asset Management’s CEO about the challenges and opportunities faced by a quant boutique
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Portfolio strategy – Emerging markets
It is no secret that while investments in emerging markets promise to deliver superior returns, thanks to their exposure to faster-growing economies, actual performance has been volatile and, at times, disappointing. Over the past decade, emerging market indices have outperformed, as have fund strategies.
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Emerging markets: Global or local?
For emerging market strategies, it is difficult to establish a clear link between performance and local presence
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Emerging markets: Investors stay positive on Chinese investments
Many Western investors are staying put in China. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given them pause over what might change their stance
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Credit: Investors cautious over Ukraine war
Despite geopolitical tensions, inflation and rising costs, private debt market remains optimistic after a record 2021
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Credit: EU raises the green bond stakes
The EU is considering making its Green Bond Standard mandatory
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Credit: Anthropocene fixed income
Former credit portfolio manager Ulf Erlandsson is on a mission to shake up the bond markets’ climate-change credentials
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Portfolio Strategy – Inflation: A new regime
CIOs and asset allocators discuss the effect of inflation on portfolios
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Portfolio strategy – Hedge funds: macro bets on
Global macro funds should do better in the current market environment – but not all will thrive and investor due diligence will be key
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Portfolio Strategy - Hedge Funds: Juggling the ESG imperative
ESG has the power to transform, but do hedge funds have the drive, data and determination to fit sustainability into their investment process?
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Portfolio Strategy – Fixed income report
As the earnings season gets under way in early January, we look at 2021’s bumper level of bank debt issuance, in particular from Bank of America, JP Morgan and Citigroup, which have all recorded big increases in deposits. Banks look set to benefit from rising rates this year, but also from their historically large capital buffers, diverse funding levels and central bank liquidity backstops and offer attractive valuations.
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US banks lead a boom in debt issuance
Capital requirements and locking in cheap funding have prompted banks to issue more bonds, but Europe lags behind
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The green bond imperative
A deepening pool of green bond issuance is allowing investors to direct capital towards objectives like energy transition
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ABS stages a comeback
‘Punitive’ regulations and onerous policies in the wake of the financial crisis saw the ABS market shrink dramatically. But complexity and an illiquidity premium offer opportunities for pension funds
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Asset class report – Equities: focus on tech and social media
Oh MAAAN! FAANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) are definitely due a rebrand now Facebook has restyled itself as Meta Platforms, Inc. While a rebrand can refresh perceptions, Facebook’s underlying business issues look more intractable, posing questions for long-term investors. We look at two topics in our equities report: how big tech companies are maturing, and how social media companies’ activities are dividing investor opinions.
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Tech: Uncertain future as FAANG stocks mature
Innovative tech giants deliver many societal benefits, but concerns over personal data misuse and market power abuse could elicit regulatory responses that inadvertently stifle innovation