Investment Strategies – Page 8
-
Asset Class Reports
Sovereign Bonds: A wealth of opportunity
Martin Steward speaks with Stratton Street Capital, which believes a sovereign’s wealth determines the performance of its bond and currency markets
-
Asset Class Reports
Sovereign Bonds: The tip of an iceberg
Detroit’s bankruptcy grabs the headlines, but Christopher O’Dea draws attention to an even more significant muni bond development: pension-funding bonds issued by high-quality deleveraging municipalities
-
Asset Class Reports
Sovereign Bonds: Tough at the top
Martin Steward finds life getting tricky for even the best active European bond managers
-
Features
Carbon investment: worth the risk?
Gyorgy Dallos argues that the financial risks associated with investing in fossil-fuel companies will increase as they extract in more hazardous places and stricter carbon constraints are enforced
-
Features
The inconstant constant
Regulation threatens the existence of Constant Net Asset Value money market funds. David Turner asks if investors will miss them
-
Interviews
M&G Fixed Income: Shining a light in the cracks
IPE editor Liam Kennedy sits down with M&G chief executive Simon Pilcher
-
Features
Mixed evidence on financialisation
Lorenzo Naranjo and Carmen Stefanescu note that commodity futures volatility has been rising since the era of ‘financialisation’ – but also that the correlation with equity market volatility long pre-dates this period
-
Special Report
Are loyalty shares a game-changer?
Nina Roehrbein asked Mirjam Staub-Bisang about sustainable investment in Switzerland
-
FeaturesTime for an overhaul
With yields rising and pension schemes continuing to increase their allocation to bonds, Peter Ball asks how trustees can plug the deficit in their schemes
-
Special Report
Transparency under the spotlight
The mandatory reporting regime of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment has caused controversy. But advocates say it will shine a light on ESG integration. Mark Nicholls reports
-
News
FinEx Capital makes bid to acquire 100% of Dexia AM
Protracted talks with Hong Kong-based private equity firm GCS broke down in July.
-
Special Report
ESG integration – no one size fits all
Nina Roehrbein surveys best practice among investment managers in ESG integration
-
Interviews
Bradesco AM: Taking local global
Surprisingly, for its size, Bradesco has spent most of its first 50 years as a resolutely local firm
-
FeaturesBe smart with smart beta
Stefan Dunatov emphasises the importance of consistency between strategy, investment beliefs and implementation when exploiting techniques like smart beta
-
Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Corporate issues
How will emerging market corporate debt fare through the first real challenge since it became a genuinely mainstream asset class? Federico Carballo and Florence Duculot offer their prognosis
-
Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: The great correlation
Emerging market debt has been driven by Fed policy more than fundamentals
-
Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Re-calibrating risk
Early summer saw volatility back in global markets, and nowhere more so than local currency emerging market debt. Joseph Mariathasan dampens out the noise and re-assesses the underlying fundamental arguments for the asset class
-
Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Missing linkers
Emerging-market inflation-linked bonds are entering a new era. Martin Steward asks how they might fit into European institutional investors’ portfolios
-
Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Throwing light on the shadows
Joseph Mariathasan looks at the little-understood world of Chinese SME non-bank financing, which is fast on its way to becoming one of the world’s most important debt markets
-
Features
Nurturing Europe’s mid-market
Taron Wade and Alexandra Dimitrijevic look into efforts to expand Germany’s Schuldschein debt private-placement market to the rest of Europe
