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Risk control to dominate
The fall-out from the attacks on New York and elsewhere have opened the debate about asset allocation and whether long term changes need to be made to investment strategies. Gordon Sharp, director of investment consulting at KPMG Pensions in London, says that there hasn’t been any radical change in the ...
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Implementing strategy shifts
Looking at the practical implications for pension funds wanting to implement strategies in response, Nizam Hamid, director of portfolio and index research at Deutsche Bank, says the first issue for institutional investors in the current market conditions has been how to put effective hedges on existing positions. “A more important ...
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Equity lessons to be learned
When we talk about the devastating effects the US terrorist attacks have had in the equity markets, we have to remember that this has been the last chapter of very long market underperformance. Concerns among institutional investors about returns in their equity portfolios did not start after last month’s dramatic ...
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Event without precedent
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC, the future direction of the US economy is shrouded in uncertainty. Though economic forecasting is tricky at the best of times, the unprecedented events of mid-September have left financial experts waiting for political, military and popular reactions ...
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Quiet caution pervades
Analysis and exhaustive investigation of the possible impact on capital markets of the dreadful events in New York and Washington will continue for sometime. Instinctively, people have looked to past experience in order to try and reconstruct some form of order in today’s shocked environment. Comparisons have been drawn between ...
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Nowhere to hide
The recent terrorist attack and ensuing tragedy in New York have caused further deterioration of an already depressed equity market in Europe. “We are now certain that there will be a recession in the US which will have a direct knock-on effect on Eurozone markets,” says Peter Nethe, a strategist ...
