All Special Report articles – Page 73
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Risk Parity Funds: Mixed performance despite low volatility targets
Risk parity funds have experienced mixed performance in recent years despite targeting low volatility
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European Long-Term Investment Funds are designed to help kick-start economic growth by broadening the range of investors in infrastructure and research projects
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Euro-zone recovery: Insurance and repression
European insurers are finding ways to adapt to the prolonged period of low interest rates and unconventional monetary policy
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Are risk parity funds staying true to their name?
There is a growing divide between the theory behind risk parity strategies and the investment products on offer
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The language of infrastructure
Frederic Blanc-Brude argues that a new data and monitoring framework will help investors improve their decision making on infrastructure investments
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What is risk parity?
All theory is grey, dear friend /And green the golden tree of life. The words of Mephistopheles in the first volume of Goethe’s Faust distinguish academia from the attractions and contradictions of the real world
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Risk parity: Variations on a theme
Risk parity investing can be modified to work better in the current difficult environment
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Tail risk parity
Risk parity approaches can be redesigned to tackle the possibility of extreme market events
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Credit: Corporate Activity & Debt Supply
The market has been suffering a shortage of loan supply, and even a pick-up in M&A and LBO activity might not be enough to reverse it
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Assessing pension fund capital risk
Pension fund appetite for direct participation in infrastructure debt continues to grow. Yet, this brings increased risk to assess
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Cyber Security in Asset Management
In an increasingly mobile, cloud-based digital world, the old model of thick walls around a centralised information keep is out of date
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Technology: Biotech
Biotech firms are reaching tipping points in science, business models and sales that should consolidate their position as the leading sub-sector in healthcare
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Credit: Bond & Loan Convergence
Investors’ continued search for performance has changed the dynamics of the European high-yield market
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Bondholder engagement: No pain, no gain
Investor protection is loosening significantly in high-yield markets
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Technology: University Venture Capital
In its narrowest form, university venture capital has raised a couple of billion dollars a year, mostly in the US and UK
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Credit: A change in dynamics
Remember covenant-lite loans? By 2009, risk-averse investors exercised huge influence over issuers and were able to obtain high levels of protection in the high-yield market
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Credit: Financial Sector High Yield
Since the financial crisis the high-yield universe has been flooded with bank debt, thanks to downgrades and increasing subordinated issuance
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Credit: Private Placements & SMEs
Europe’s private placement markets have so far been the preserve of larger, investment-grade borrowers. But there are signs that credit-hungry smaller companies may finally be getting a look in
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Credit: Standardising European Private Placements
One way to bring investors to the projects that are willing to pay sufficient yields might be a pan-European private placement market
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Credit: Private Placements in Germany
Germany has one of the longest established private placement markets in Europe, but bank lending is still dominating the finance arena
