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  • Cora Jungbluth
    Features

    China: Caught in the crossfire

    March 2021 (Magazine)

    The investment world is at risk of being caught in the midst of a ‘geoeconomic’ conflict between the world’s main economic blocs

  • Features

    Rising interest in EM debt

    March 2021 (Magazine)

    The weak dollar and low US interest rates are pushing governments and companies in emerging markets (EMs) to issue growing volumes of dollar-denominated debt.

  • Spiking interest rates
    Features

    Hedge funds: Coping with low interest rates

    March 2021 (Magazine)

    Historical analysis suggests portfolios of certain quant hedge fund strategies may offset some of the risk of rising interest rates

  • Paul Britton_Cropped
    Features

    Strategically Speaking: Capstone Investment Advisors

    March 2021 (Magazine)

    Last spring’s exceptional market volatility proved the mettle of at least one set of strategies – volatility-focused hedge funds. The CBOE Eurekahedge Tail Risk Hedge Fund index returned a bumper 51.64% in the first three months of 2020 alone against a broad hedge fund market index return of -7.96%, and was up 34.8% for the year.

  • A potential cause for concern
    Features

    Fixed Income, Rates, Currencies: Priming the pump

    March 2021 (Magazine)

    Although COVID-19 infection rates are falling across many regions, the ‘success’ is more a reflection of lockdown restrictions keeping opportunities for virus spread low. 

  • Patrick Ghali
    Features

    Ahead of the curve: Alternatives investing in a low-yielding world

    March 2021 (Magazine)

    Investors hoping to replicate bond-like returns (low to mid-single digit, low volatility and drawdown) are facing an unenviable predicament. How can they generate acceptable, positive returns without simultaneously suffering illiquidity, valuation uncertainty, gap risk, and other hard to quantify risks?

  • Benchmark Risk - March 2021
    Features

    Qontigo Riskwatch - March 2021

    March 2021 (Magazine)

    * Data as of 29 January 2021.

  • Trade flow Ratio - Developed Markets March 2021
    Features

    Virtu Global Tradewatch - March 2021

    March 2021 (Magazine)

    January 2021 data as of 16 February 2021

  • Net Sentiment Bonds - March 2021
    Features

    IPE Quest Expectations Indicator - March 2021

    March 2021 (Magazine)

    Vaccination figures are rising steadily, but are still at a relatively low level. The US and UK, both important vaccine producers, lead the field with the EU and Japan lagging. As the speed of vaccination has increased, supplies have become a problem, except in the UK. This has caused bad feelings in the EU to the point where a trade war was threatened. New vaccines are in the regulatory pipeline but market shares have largely already been divided in the developed countries. The discovery of new COVID-19 mutations and their resistance to vaccines are an additional risk.

  • Liam Kennnedy
    Opinion Pieces

    Infra must adapt to meet pension goals

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Looked at collectively, or even individually, the cashflow needs of Europe’s defined benefit (DB) and hybrid pension schemes are huge and potentially challenging given the scale of income generating assets needed to help service them.

  • Ben Inker
    Asset Class Reports

    Value equities: Dead or alive?

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Today’s realities and intangibles have changed the face of value

  • Aron Landy
    Asset Class Reports

    Hedge fund performance: 2020, year of the human touch

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Diversification is back in favour for hedge funds and those with a downside protection mandate delivered during the crisis

  • Ireland
    Country Report

    Country report – Pensions in Ireland (February 2021)

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    In 2018, the Irish government published its “Roadmap for Pensions Reform”, which set out plans for a national auto-enrolment system to be implemented for 2022. The implementation of changes has been dogged by delays, with COVID-19 joining the long list of obstacles slowing the country’s pension reform, as we analyse in this report. We also look at how volatile financial markets have impacted funding levels of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, and explore the potential of the new regulated investment limited partnerships for institutional investors in private assets.

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    Special Report

    Special Report: European Pension Funds’ COVID Response

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    We also analyse how public development banks are going beyond their traditional remit, with a focus on post-COVID recovery, tackling climate change and meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Daniel Ben-Ami
    Opinion Pieces

    The world is approaching an inflection point

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Domestic challenges and US political developments have proved such a preoccupation recently that it has been all too easy to miss a key global shift. China’s rise to global prominence has accelerated markedly as a result of the past year’s events.

  • Caitriona McGuinness
    Country Report

    A long and winding road

    February 2021 (Magazine)

     COVID-19 joins the line of obstacles slowing Irish pension reform plans 

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    Special Report

    On the record: The path to recovery

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Six major pension investors chart the risks and opportunities ahead as the world moves into a recovery phase

  • Brad Bauer
    Asset Class Reports

    Hedge funds and distressed debt: Competition for assets will be fierce

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Hedge funds will have to compete with private equity and credit funds for distressed opportunities following the pandemic

  • Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
    Opinion Pieces

    COVID-19 barely tested the financial system

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    The financial system seems to have coped well with COVID-19. This is despite the repeated recent warnings about a build-up of systemic risk. In turn this has been linked to the abundance of cheap debt and the growth of the asset management industry. 

  • Tomás Kirrane
    Country Report

    DB funding: Small rise in funding levels

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Volatile financial markets continue to cause significant headaches for pension schemes