Investment Strategies – Page 26
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Positive impact in Africa
A local presence and a tilt towards impact investing is the way to succeed on the final frontier, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Features
Russian bank roulette
Shares in the bigger Russian banks are spiking on the belief of further consolidation and privatisation in the sector, writes Richard Hemming
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Special Report
Fees: Beta-zero fees
Bernd Scherer tells Martin Steward that asset managers should take a good look at – and possibly hedge – the market risk embedded in their fees. How might that change the relationship with clients?
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Fees: The big issue
Size definitely affects active management risks and returns, writes Matthew Craig. But the relationship is by no means a simple one
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Special ReportClean India
Kirsteen Morrison identifies some showcase opportunities in renewable energy, water and agriculture in India
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Features
Strategic dynamism
Optimal strategic asset allocation cannot be the same for investors with different levels of wealth at different moments in time, argue Philippe Aurain and Eric Bouyé
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: Emerging questions
The days of a simple emerging market allocation are over. Correspondingly, JosephMariathasan finds a variety of approaches among the top performing managers
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Fees: Just rewards
Unfairness, high levels, perverse incentives: fees are always guaranteed to raise temperatures. Martin Steward considers some imaginative proposals for alignment of interests
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Interviews
Latin translation
“We have a saying in Spain,” says BBVA’s head of global asset management Luisa Gómez Bravo. “‘No vendas la piel del oso antes de haberlo cazado’.” Don’t sell the bearskin until you’ve hunted the bear. The proverb comes in response to the question of how the €140bn asset management unit of one of the biggest global banking brands remains so little-known among Europe’s institutional investors.
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AP1 gets tough on global custody
In the wake of the crisis, the giant AP1 is looking for a new global custodian and is setting stringent operating conditions. Iain Morse reports
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Special Report
Asset Allocation: Slow and steady
They are not racy or sexy and they are certainly not the next hot thing. But Peter Taberner finds that ‘high quality’ equities might suit investors’ jaded palettes
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Asset Allocation: Just got bigger
Euan G Munro discusses structural changes to the role of asset allocator and asks whether they should be empowered with further responsibilites within the investment process
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Special ReportAsset Allocation: Raincoat and sunglasses
Today’s distorted and correlated markets confound asset allocation. Martin Steward asks when normalisation will be restored, and how to manage the transition
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Angling for alpha: pension funds talk hedge funds
When he isn’t managing the alpha traders at Denmark’s state pension fund, ATP Alpha CEO Fredrik Martinsson likes nothing better than to get out with his rod and line – so it’s no surprise that he reaches for an angling metaphor to explain his understanding of alpha.
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Cleantech: no longer a dirty word
Smart grid and biomass are two sectors investors in renewables might consider if they are looking beyond the more traditional headline-hitting solar and wind energy. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Features
Get converted
The convex payoff of convertible bonds is well-suited to these uncertain times. But Martin Steward asks how easy – or desirable – it is to maintain optimal convexity
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Hedge funds and the crisis
Citi Prime Services canvassed the opinions of hedge funds and hedge fund investors on the impact from and response to the liquidity crisis of 2007-08, and to gauge its longer-term implications for the sector. Sandy Kaul discusses the findings
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Interviews
Winton’s global equity strategy
The West London offices of Winton Capital Management, best known for the diversified managed futures programme that has helped it grow into one of Europe’s biggest hedge funds, feel more like a university campus than an HQ of an asset management firm.
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Into the mainstream
The hedge fund industry’s operational infrastructure and client base has become increasingly institutionalised and its investment practices continue to converge with those of traditional asset managers, writes Todd Groome
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Managed managed futures
What value can a fund of funds add for the managed futures investor? Martin Steward asks Thomas Weber of LGT Capital Partners, whose Crown Managed Futures fund is celebrating its tenth birthday
