Investment Strategies – Page 23
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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: Quant surveyors
As the recent AXA Rosenberg episode revealed, systematic quantitative investment promises the ideal in transparency and integrated risk-management – as long as managers’ corporate governance is equally systematic. Martin Steward reports
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It’s still a man’s world
Nina Röhrbein finds out whether diversity on company boards help stave off crises by bringing fresh thinking and different skills?
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Quant: Down but not out
Each crisis delivers useful lessons to the quants world, writes Iain Morse. What did the last one teach us about the optimal conditions and most dangerous risks for model-driven strategies?
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Credit: X marks the spot
The hinterland between investment grade and high yield delivers an intriguing risk profile. But Martin Steward also finds that it has been changing rapidly
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Special ReportCredit: Yielding products, rising rates
Roy Kuo and Emily Upson run through the characteristics and recent performance of a range of yielding products, offering portfolio solutions for a rising rates environment
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US Equities: Concentration on quality
High quality franchises with a global outlook can deliver returns well ahead of the US market, finds Joseph Mariathasan. But it can be a bumpy ride
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Building Bubbleville?
Emma Cusworth asks if there is enough infrastructure for sale to cope with investor demand – and how to buy it cost-effectively
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Credit: Thinking beyond the benchmark
D William Kohli discusses the need for a broader opportunity set in a rising rate environment
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In pole position to become CEE hub
The Warsaw Stock Exchange is proving a favourite with CEE-originated IPOs and emerging CEE countries. Iain Morse reports
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The small print on alternatives
Pension schemes spare no expense buying ‘proper advice’ on investment matters – but often neglect to seek it on their investment vehicles. Winston Penhall outlines the legal niceties of private equity and hedge fund investments
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Quant: An alternative Aspect
Martin Steward talks to Martin Lueck about why systematic managed futures shone in 2008 while other quantitative strategies sank
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Across the Gulf… and into the world
Limestone Asset Management launched its first fund, the New Europe Socially Responsible fund, in July 2008. Great timing: it was down 47% by December. But, that was 2.6 percentage points better than its benchmark, the Stoxx EU Enlarged Total Market index. And it made quite a comeback: when it ended 2009 up 83.1%, it left the index trailing by 42 percentage points – outperformance which it has built on since.
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US Equities: 20 heads are better than one
Joseph Mariathasan takes a look at Neuberger Berman’s Flexible All Cap US Equity strategy
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Private Equity: The post-crisis panorama
The 2007-09 crisis has had visible and long-term consequences on the small world of private equity, writes Cyril Demaria
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Private Equity: Growth markets of the north
India, China, Brazil? Iain Morse finds that investors are apt to look at the Nordic countries when considering the most attractive places to commit private equity money
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Commodities: Grub first, then ethics
Passions run high and evidence is mixed. Nina Röhrbein finds pension fund investors often play safe when it comes to food futures
