February 14
Strategy Smart Beta strategies continue to attract assets
Institutional investors continue to diversify their investment portfolios into alternative assets, increasingly via direct funds rather than funds of funds according to global data from Towers Watson.
|
February 6
Strategy 2013 Credit Investment Strategies More About Alpha Than Beta
In a new report, Fitch Ratings says that credit investment strategies need to adapt to less directional credit markets and exploit carry and relative value opportunities, while carefully managing rising duration, idiosyncratic and liquidity (...)
|
January 29
Strategy BlackRock: Insurers Face Fixed Income Dilemma
Insurers are likely to re-examine their allocations to fixed income assets in 2013 as continued low interest rates challenge business models and profitability, according to BlackRock’s global insurance industry outlook, “2013: The Year (...)
|
January 17
Strategy J.P. Morgan Asset Management reveals five key themes for institutional investors in 2013
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has revealed what it sees as the five key themes for institutional investors in 2013...
|
January 10
Strategy The Case for High Dividend Investing in Emerging markets
From a purely dividend yield perspective, Western investors could diversify into emerging markets where dividend growth is supported by low levels of company debt coupled and high profitability.
|
December 2012
Strategy An example of Quantitative Strategy: The Low Volatility approach
Low volatility indices and, more broadly, products based on quantitative strategies aiming to select only low-volatility stocks, have met with growing success with the financial community and investors. However, most of these indices have major drawbacks that cannot always (...)
|
November 2012
Strategy Philippe Aurain: "The choice of flexibility is not trivial"
According to Philippe Aurain, CEO of Fédéris MANAGEMENT, given the diversity of processes called Flexible Management; we should probably define a typology helping investors to find themselves in a multi-faceted (...)
|
November 2012
Strategy Further consolidations expected in China’s soft beverages market
There is likely to be a wave of consolidations in China’s beverages market as it responds to the USD 5 billion alliance of Tingyi and PepsiCo, according a report from Rabobank. Smaller, ‘second tier’ beverages players will be affected most by the new alliance, as they struggle (...)
|
November 2012
Strategy Emerging Europe poised for sustainable long term growth
Although very different on a country-by-country basis, ING IM predicts that, collectively, Emerging Europe is set to benefit from a desire to advance regulatory enhancements, push ahead with economic liberalisation and pursue privatization (...)
|
October 2012
Strategy Corporate Bonds – Ideal for Emerging Markets diversification
With sovereign ceilings rising, corporate governance and overall transparency improving, demand and liquidity high and returns attractive relative to risk, what’s not to like about Emerging Markets corporate bonds?
|
October 2012
Strategy Africa: Kenya’s Mobile Frontier
When we first started out in the emerging markets space more than two decades ago, we were in “frontier” territory as we entered markets such as Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey and Brazil that were previously closed to foreign (...)
|
September 2012
Strategy US housing: a long-term attractive opportunity
According to Stephanie Krertz, US real estate to be an excellent longterm opportunity, with a currently very attractive entry point in terms of valuation, even though sub-par economic growth is likely to make the rise in prices much more gradual than during previous (...)
|
August 2012
Strategy WTI prices not keeping pace with fundamentals
WTI prices have rallied over $18/bbl from their June lows. However, the rally in WTI prices has failed to keep pace with the rally in Brent prices, which are up more than $24/bbl from their June lows.
|
August 2012
Strategy Do mega companies offer mega opportunities?
Mega companies are bigger than most countries. Quite a few pharma, food, oil and tech companies reach annual revenues of over $50 bln, exceeding the GDP levels of more than 2/3 of the countries in the world. Unusually, these mega companies have performed better than the (...)
|
August 2012
Strategy Despite DB Decline, U.K. Institutional Market to Provide Ample Opportunities for Asset Managers for Next 10-20 Years
Results of the Greenwich Associates 2012 U.K. Investment Management Study reveal that the U.K. institutional investment market should continue to expand over at least the next decade or two, but changing product demand will fundamentally shake up the source of revenues for (...)
|
| 1
|
|
|
|
| |
Read comments
