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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator December 2016
With the US election over, the opportunity of interpreting expectations of managers just prior to it is interesting. There were some interesting changes in the most recent period, but by far the most intriguing was the shifting of expectations to stability in equity markets without significant changes elsewhere.
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Country ReportAsset Allocation: Pension funds embrace the real
Jim Robinson reviews the recent mandate activity of large Nordic institutional investors
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Barings
“An asset manager brand is very important. But, it is not the brand that defines people in the firm, it is the people who will define the brand.” That is the view of Tom Finke, CEO of Barings
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Features
Women in Asset Management: Redressing the balance
Women remain under-represented in asset management despite substantial success in improving their representation in other professions. Brendan Maton examines attempts to redress the balance
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Jon Little - Northill Capital
“Successful managers are hard to find but those that do exist generally share some common characteristics”
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Special ReportSpecial Report: China’s tricky transition
Daniel Ben-Ami looks at the progress China has made and the obstacles it faces as it attempts to become an advanced economy
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Asset Class ReportsInvesting In Emerging Market Equities: The tide begins to turn
Emerging market equities are finally seeing inflows, but are these justified? Joseph Mariathasan investigates
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Special Report
Multi-Asset Strategies: Can you beat it?
Investors have for years used a 60% allocation to equities and a 40% allocation to bonds (sometimes inverted) as a simple and informal benchmark for an investment strategy
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Country ReportPensions In Switzerland: Parliamentary ping pong
A political stalemate is holding up Switzerland’s Altersvorsorge 2020 pensions reform package. And now time is running out, as Barbara Ottawa finds
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Features
Switzerland's pensions debate: Negative for longer
Switzerland is engaged in a debate not just about its pension reforms, but also wider issues of intergenerational fairness and the stability of the second-pillar pension system
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Special Report
Special Report: Currency - Behind the strong dollar
Several factors have combined to boost the dollar’s performance, finds David Turner
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Special Report
Financial Liberalisation: More access to Chinese assets
Florence Chong explores how China is opening up its bond and equity markets to foreign investors
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Asset Class Reports
The impact of shifting commodity prices
Rising commodity prices are good news for commodity exporters but Rodrigo Amaral finds they can even benefit importers
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Features
Trump fixation obscures bigger picture
Donald Trump is such a lurid character (to put it politely) that it is all too easy to become obsessed with him. That helps explain why there is so much fraught discussion of him even outside the US
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Special Report
Asset Allocation: The 60/40 question
Joseph Mariathasan asks how multi-asset managers are seeking to prove their worth in a low-return, high-correlation world, when a 60/40 equity/bond portfolio looks hard to beat
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Special Report
EM rally greeted with caution
Emerging market currencies have been boosted recently by strong inflows from investors seeking higher returns. But Ayşe Ferliel Barounos finds not everyone expects the rebound to last
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Curves, currency and costs
More than anywhere else, the low and negative interest rate environment is shaping Swiss portfolios. But investment challenges are quite particular, finds Barbara Ottawa
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Special ReportThe rise of the renminbi
Joseph Mariathasan discusses the rise of the renminbi with Prof Eswar Prasad of Cornell University
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Asset Class Reports
EM portfolios can gain from balance
Investors looking to optimise their exposure to emerging markets should not limit themselves to strategies that focus only on large companies and countries
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Features
Emerging markets make no sense
After poor performances over the past three years, which led to large outflows, EM assets are finding their way back into institutional portfolios
