All articles by Martin Steward – Page 7
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Features
Low beta, high benefits
The significant outperformance of apparently ‘low-risk’ stocks over time is a well-known ‘anomaly’ in investment theory. Martin Steward asks, if it is an anomaly, won’t it eventually be corrected?
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: What’s in a name?
Confusing terminology aside, ‘short-duration high-yield’ looks like a compelling opportunity for low-volatility yield pick-up. Martin Steward assesses the risks, and underlines the importance of defining objectives
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Interviews
Surviving the seven years of famine
Rogge Global Partners operates out of one of London’s most spectacular offices, the neo-Gothic Sion Hall, its traders toiling beneath the gaze of stained-glass images of heroes of the English Reformation.
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NewsInvestor Working Party issues recommendations on stewardship [updated]
Group includes Aviva Investors, BlackRock, Governance for Owners, RPMI Railpen, Ram Trust and USS.
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NewsThe euro-zone crisis: The more you struggle …
Remember Chinese finger traps from childhood? Europe is full of them, says Martin Steward.
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News
IPE magazine: Special report on Europe's pension consultants
Look after the short term to survive for the long term, consultants say.
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NewsLeverage longevity by 'turning savers into investors', says BlackRock's Fink
CEO calls on society to look through current uncertainties and 'put cash to work' in economy.
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: ‘You can’t handle the truth’
Martin Steward considers a contrarian strategy that is not afraid to go neutral when the market is not in contrarian mood
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: Staying in style
Surprisingly, Martin Steward finds that it was just about possible for pan-European contrarian value to hang in there during 2011’s quality-growth world
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Features
Do hedge funds delay reporting to save face?
It is well known that databases of historical hedge fund returns suffer from a range of biases – chiefly ‘survivor bias’. The worst funds cease reporting their results, sometimes simply because they go out of business, and some of the best stop reporting when they no longer need to raise assets.
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: Two different routes to risk
How should you be positioned at the inflection point of one of the strangest economic cycles in history? Martin Steward finds the consistent performers rotating into pro-cyclical stocks in both top-down and bottom-up strategies
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: The middle way
Successful risk-taking in European equities during 2011 was more nuanced than it first appears, finds Martin Steward
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Features
One year later
The Tohoku earthquake of March 2011 was one of the most devastating natural disasters of recent times. Martin Steward asks if it has changed the way investors look at their Japanese equity portfolios
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Features
The more you struggle…
Remember Chinese finger traps? Those childhood toys that hold your fingertipsever more tightly the more you struggle to pull them free? Europe is full of them.
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NewsPioneer targets 'organic' growth, Asia in new five-year plan
Company unveils first plan since possible sale of business came to nothing last year.
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NewsAl Gore outlines key actions for 'sustainable capitalism'
Says capitalism 'superior' to other systems, but laments trend towards 'short-termism'.
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NewsSupply-demand imbalance to weigh on US yields, says BlackRock's Rieder
Asset manager's CIO expects five-year Treasury yields to remain below 1% for "a very long time".
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Special Report
Equity Sectors: The best form of defence
If you must hold equities, during volatile times it pays to be invested in the ‘safest’ businesses. But Martin Steward finds a changing world challenging old assumptions about which sectors contain these defensive stocks
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Special Report
Equity Sectors: Sector success
Neptune Investment Management manages £6.5bn (€7.9bn) in almost 30 different equity strategies, pursuing a sector-driven philosophy. Martin Steward discussed the process with Douglas McDowell, head of client investment strategies
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Asset Class Reports
Small & Mid-Caps: The 800-pound gorilla
UK exposure – or lack of it – has been decisive in European small and mid-caps. But Martin Steward finds that managers have also had to contend with a difficult ‘risk-on, risk-off’ environment
