All Strategies articles – Page 23
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Commodities: Energy revolutions
Forget renewables. Anthony Harrington finds that the technology that might really disrupt your portfolio’s traditional oil exposures – and much else besides – could be shale gas extraction
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Commodities: Water, water everywhere…
…any way to invest? Martin Steward ponders how to turn H2O into EUR, GBP and USD
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Keep a clear head
Growth in earnings rather than gearing will be the key to future private equity success, finds Joseph Mariathasan. But where to find it when the developed world expects economic growth to remain depressed?
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Commodities: Beyond oil
Lynn Strongin Dodds considers the extra diversification benefits available from commodities with weaker links to the industrial cycle
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Commodities: Whipping up the amber waves
Commodity futures investors are not ‘evil speculators’, finds Martin Steward. But do they enable the farmers who are?
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Learning from Vedanta
Nina Röhrbein examines the rights of indigenous people, an important issue as natural resources become scarcer, forcing exploration of the world’s remoter regions
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Features
Gateways to growing markets
Iain Morse surveys securities services markets in Portugal, Gibraltar and Cyprus
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Interviews
‘Risk is everything to us’
Asset managers’ products rarely surprise anyone. You’re an equities specialist? You’ll have US, European, UK, emerging markets funds, maybe Japan. Fixed income? I’ll choose from your treasuries, gilts and Eurozone products, investment grade and high yield, maybe local currency emerging markets. There might even be some convertibles tucked away somewhere.
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Private Equity: What are funds of funds for?
Our main article identifies mid-market strategies and emerging markets as the key areas of future earnings growth in private equity. It has to be said that funds of funds providers tend to prefer this space in the US and Europe, arguing that returns are likely to be better and that they themselves cannot add much value by investing in the handful of mega funds that large institutions can invest in directly.
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Features
Arab Spring premium
Matthew Craig finds political upheaval in the MENA region generating volatility, opportunity and a new appreciation of risk
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Interviews
Accent on EM capability
Rudolf Apenbrink, HSBC Global Asset Management’s new EMEA CEO, outlined his firm’s strategy to Liam Kennedy following the integration of its Halbis and Sinopia brands
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: A topsy-turvy world
The financial crisis has re-arranged the contours of credit risk, writes Joseph Mariathasan. Deciding what represents low risk is the greatest challenge
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Credit: Different dimensions of style
Joseph Mariathasan reports on a new set of indices that add a defensive/dynamic dimension alongside market cap and value/growth
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Features
Credit to lending
Many pension funds canned their securities lending programmes outright in 2008 but have now recovered their nerve. However, Iain Morse argues that regulation is now likely to drive the future shape of the industry
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Taking climate change in your stride
Nina Röhrbein looks at Mercer’s project to help institutional investors tailor their investment portfolios to manage the risks as well as exploit the opportunities thrown up by climate change
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Features
X marks the spot
The hinterland between investment grade and high yield delivers an intriguing risk profile. But Martin Steward also finds that profile changing
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Features
Maltese persuasion
Malta is benefiting from the trend of near-shoring in the securities services business, writes Iain Morse
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Features
How independent is the Old Lady?
Neil Record worries that the Bank of England’s bias towards low rates correlates with a political imperative to inflate away public and financial sector debts. So is monetary policy now controlled by Whitehall, rather than Threadneedle Street?
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Interviews
Five years on
When Peter Wilby begins our conversation by remarking on Stone Harbor Investment Partners’ imminent fifth birthday, it is as if, stepping back, he suddenly realises what a thrill ride it has been.
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: A heterogeneous marketplace
Top-performing European equity portfolios are both concentrated and very diverse in outlook and composition, finds Joseph Mariathasan
