Latest Special Reports – Page 99
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Pharmas in better health
Although improving, the pharma sector still has social and environmental challenges to address. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Securities Services: Fund administrators gear up for change
In a nascent market where there is everything to play for, private equity fund administrators are gearing up for a host of regulatory and market changes, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Securities Services: Big is becoming beautiful
The traditional, independent boutique hedge fund administrator will feel the pressure of progressive onshoring and regulation, reports Iain Morse
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Securities Services: Security threat
Iain Morse reports on the avalanche of regulation heading the way of securities lending
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Securities Services: Light me up
The ‘trade at’ rule sparks heated debate about ‘best price’ concepts and the road that equity market trading reforms should take, reports Richard Hemming
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Securities Services: Sourcing global equity liquidity
Equity market fragmentation is a significant challenge to executing large blocks of stock with minimal market impact, writes Edward Pennings. At the same time, it provides an opportunity for those with a firm grasp on navigating this new landscape
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Securities Services: The lowest ebb
Greece’s financial services markets are at rock bottom. Iain Morse assesses the domestic custody market in the face of current tribulations
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Securities Services: Embrace the information age
Cyril Demaria argues that private equity has everything to win from a more systematic and transparent approach to reporting information W
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Securities Services: What’s lacking with infrastructure
Infrastructure can generate high administration costs because of non-standard valuation, benchmarking and performance measurement, finds Emma Cusworth
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Curbing corruption
Nina Röhrbein reports on how the investment industry is guarding against the recent rise in corporate corruption
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Driving forward
Niall Mills discusses the relationship between responsible investment and the inflation-linked income generated by infrastructure assets
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Portfolio Construction: Convexity complexities
Buying absolute return or tail-risk insurance strategies complicates the portfolio rebalancing process. But Martin Steward finds that a solvency management framework can re-impose some objectivity on that process
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: Preparing for all probabilities
Emma Cusworth discusses strategic asset allocation weights adjusted for the economic cycle
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Portfolio Construction: A roadmap for portfolio rebalancing
Will Kinlaw and Jay Moore discuss how pension funds can avoid traffic jams, road construction and the associated costs of delays as they get portfolios back on the road to strategic asset allocation weights
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: The changing asset allocation framework
Stacy Cuffe, Lisa Goldberg and Frank Nielsen describe the move from asset-class allocation to risk-based allocation, and the problem of ‘risk-grouping’
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Portfolio Construction: Risk as a profit centre
Managing and monitoring tail risk is not just about insuring against extreme losses. Boryana Racheva-Iotova describes the potential for expected tail loss measures to feed into tactical portfolio optimisation where variance is traditionally deployed
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Portfolio Construction: Offensive or defensive?
Kathryn Kaminski argues that the adaptable, liquid,systematic profile of managed futures makes it a more efficient long-term approach to tail risk than insurance-style strategies
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Portfolio Construction: Defensive or offensive?
Jerry Haworth argues that options-based volatility strategies have five ‘killer apps’ that make them better tail-risk hedges than managed futures – as long as you buy them at the right time
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: Hedge fund ALM
The 2008 crisis showed how liquidity mismatches can undermine apparently robust hedge fund portfolios. Peter Meier and Jann Stoz argue that measuring returns autocorrelation can enable investors to assess mismatches using only fund of fund-level information
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A tailor-made trend
Nina Röhrbein reports on a recent surge in demand for sustainable indices, but questions whether they match client needs
