Investment Strategies – Page 22
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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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Interviews
‘Adjacency’, or the art of step-by-step
It is tempting, just because it is so good at it, to think of the $11bn (€7.8bn) London-based hedge fund manager CQS as a credit specialist. But founder Michael Hintze is keen to emphasise its broader strengths. “We are a big hedge fund, but we do more than simply provide absolute returns in credit,” he says. “Nowadays we are a global multi-strategy, multi-asset management firm providing hedge fund, long only and bespoke solutions for clients.”
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: Alphabet soup: a second helping
Joseph Mariathasan takes a look at the structured credit and loans markets and finds a surprising abundance of reasons to tuck back into the alphabet soup, even after significant spread-tightening
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The future of cleantech
Investors in the cleantech industry are not just funding the development of environmentally conscious business, argues Paul Corren. While the technology is developed to do that, it is also focused on reducing costs and improving efficiency
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Features
Opening up custody
Planned merger of Russia’s rival exchanges could clear the way for securities lending, writes Iain Morse
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Event horizons
Martin Steward finds an unusual corporate event cycle teeing up opportunities for event-driven hedge funds – but not necessarily classic merger arbitrage or distressed debt
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Measuring social impact
Work needs to be done to standardise the measurement of the social impact of investments. Michele Giddens warns against oversimplifying the question
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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
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Top 400: Leading soundbites
IPE questioned CEOs, CIOs and other senior figures in investment management
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Top 400: Non-financial risks in the European fund management industry
Samuel Sender discusses non financial risks in asset management and outlines some ways in which their effects can be countered
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Top 400: Towards a unified code of conduct
A universal code of conduct for asset managers will raise confidence among investors, argues Nitin Mehta
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Top 400: The consumer rules
Charles Muller assesses recent EU legislative developments aimed at enhancing consumer protection in asset management products
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Top 400: Balancing compliance with business growth
Flexibility is the key to overcoming the threat to growth caused by an abundance of new legislation, argues John Mayr of SimCorp
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Top 400: Clients and distribution
Peter Ellis outlines a four-point business structure for asset managers
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Special ReportTop 400: Active management - tipping the odds in your favour
The question of active versus passive management has long faced investors, argues Roz Amos
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Top 400: Diamonds and duds - what will shine and what will fail?
John Nestor reviews the results of the fourth AIMSE diamonds and duds poll and considers how views have changed
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Top 400: Hedge funds coming of age
The credit crunch is forcing a reckless teenager to become a responsible adult, according to Amin Rajan
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Quant: All in the numbers
Anthony Harrington asks what went wrong for quants during the crisis, but also questions the received wisdom that ‘all quants are the same’
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Credit: Anatomy of a crisis
Joseph Mariathasan takes us on a tour of the crash and recovery, asks where bond investors should be looking next – and reminds us that credit is never, ever, a free lunch
