Note Are markets becoming more unstable?
Readers of financial news may believe that ‘market corrections’, or ‘shocks’, or ‘five-sigma events’ are more common than they used to be. Winton Capital Management look at the historical data for a number of financial markets and find that there is no evidence for increasing (...)
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Note Emotion is not a sign of weakness for investors any more
New research suggests that rather than staying cold-bloodied and rational the top fund managers use emotion to choose which stocks to buy.
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Note The Money Printing Myth - Why Sovereigns Default on Local Currency Debt
Fitch Ratings says in a newly-published report that the popular perception that sovereigns cannot default on debt denominated in their own currency because of their power to print money is a myth. They can and (...)
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Note Swiss Re Insurance Report 2013 explores how the UK life assurance market can address consumer indifference and the changing protection market
The report also analyses the important role employers, advisers and intermediaries have to play in a changing financial services landscape.
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Note To succeed in selling one’s hedge fund just when performance is deteriorating: an impossible equation ?
The number of funds on sale in Europe is in free fall because the owners have no choice other than mergers, even liquidation, because of rapidly declining performance which makes it impossible to sell at a good (...)
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Note US Energy infrastructure: The MLP example
Among infrastructure assets, energy infrastructure assets such as pipelines, storage facilities or processing plants, are experiencing a rapid growth, especially in the USA. Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) have played a key role in facilitating investment in US energy (...)
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Note The rumour, a necessary credit analysis instrument
According to Bruno Mathis from SterWen and Jean Delahousse, all institutions exposed on Lehman which have highly developed credit analysis tools are able to detect warning signs as soon as they come about and would have almost four months to take safety measures (CDS (...)
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Note EDHEC-Risk Institute suggests a new dynamic approach for measuring the market exposures of stock portfolios
Multi-factor models are standard tools for analysing the performance and the risk of equity portfolios. In addition to analysing the impact of common factors, equity portfolio managers are also interested in analysing the role of stock-specific attributes in explaining (...)
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Note Sovereign Investors pivot away from Europe towards China
Invesco released its seventh Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study, an annual in-depth report on the complex investment behaviour of sovereign wealth funds and central banks, which this year shows disenchantment with Europe among sovereign (...)
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Note Launch of green bonds
The term «Green Bonds» is more frequently used to describe a market that should mature very fast in order to deal with numerous requests for investments in the field of green infrastructure projects.
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Note Three Quarters of Investors Demand Increased Levels of Transparency on Private Equity Performance
Nearly two thirds (59 percent) of institutional investors globally are set to increase their allocation to private equity over the next five years, according to new State Street research. In contrast, a further 15 percent of institutional investors said their exposure to (...)
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Note M&A volumes make a comeback globally
There were more M&A deals1 completed globally in the third quarter of 2014 than in any prior equivalent period for the last six years according to Towers Watson’s Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor (QDPM). The research – run in partnership with Cass Business School – (...)
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Note Investors face increasing risks amid renewed market volatility
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities regulator, has published the second Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities (TRV) report for 2019. The report identifies a deteriorating outlook for the asset management industry and continued very high (...)
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Note Water risk: what COVID-19 has taught us about ignoring systemic risks and what to do about it
For the past decade, WWF has been asking, “why are water crises continually ignored despite featuring on the WEF risk list year after year?” We know water crises are happening, we know the impact is substantial, and we know the risks are worsening, yet nobody is (...)
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Note Issuance in Emerging Market Green Bonds to Reach $100 Billion by 2023, Amundi and IFC Find
Despite the impact of COVID-19, emerging market green bond issuance totalled $40 billion in 2020. Underpinned by supportive market fundamentals, emerging market green bond issuance is expected to reach $100 billion by 2023. Since 2012, 43 emerging markets have issued green (...)
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