Research
All research papers related to asset management
Quant Note
Note,
January 2012
Major innovations in weighting methodologies for equity and bond indices
According to Christian Lopez, Head of Research at CPR-AM, the four largest families of alternative indices are low volatility/minimum variance, equally-weighted, indices weighted by micro or macro fundamentals and maximum diversification (...)
Note,
November 2011
How can funds with past sustainable returns collapse in a few months?
Are these abrupt changes only an indication of the risks of the market, or is it investment behaviour which favours the occurance of these extreme risks ? These are the question tackled in the last « White Paper » of (...)
Note,
October 2011
Estimating the Real Rate of Return on Stock Index
Judicious use of the rate of return framework on equity, or "cost of capital" facilitates decision-making within the financial industry by providing a metric for comparing different stock markets between them but also a comparison to other asset (...)
Strategy,
October 2011
Management of hedge fund portfolios during crisis periods: the contribution of systematic overlays
The implementation of systematic overlays can be considered as an alternative to short-term rebalancing of hedge fund portfolios, or as an active component of alternative allocations.
Opinion,
May 2011
Mathematical models in finance and embedded risk underestimation
The statistical assumption of normal (log-normal) distribution of stock returns (prices) is not that strong and tail events’ occurrence is largely undervalued. Nevertheless, this modeling framework has been widely used for strong (...)
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Study
Note,
October 2017
Insurers looking to investment portfolios to improve profitability
BlackRock’s sixth annual global survey of 300 senior insurance executives found that two-thirds of insurers agree that re-thinking the investment portfolio will be vital to maintaining or improving the future profitability of their business. Over two-fifths (41%) said they (...)
Note,
September 2017
Investors’ Appetite for Gains Exceeds Their Stomach for Risk, and Index Funds May Not Deliver What They Want
Natixis Global Asset Management has released the results of its 2017 Global Individual Investor survey. A total of 8300 individual investors (400 in France) have been surveyed between February and March 2017 in 21 countries across Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Middle (...)
Note,
September 2017
The unstoppable rise of alternatives
The world’s largest 100 alternative asset managers saw assets under management increase by 10% in 2016, rising to $4 trillion, according to the 2017 edition of Willis Towers Watson’s Global Alternatives Survey.
Note,
September 2017
Active Managers Enjoyed Improved Performance In Q2 According To New Study By Lyxor
Lyxor Asset Management’s latest study into active manager performance shows 55% of them beat their benchmarks in the second quarter of 2017. That’s a significant improvement on results at the end of last year, when only 28% outperformed, and above the 52% of (...)
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September 2017
State Street Study Reveals Asset Owners’ Increasing Appetite for Illiquid Assets is Driving Interest in Co-Investment
State Street Corporation announced the findings from its latest study, A New Climate for Growth: Adapting Models to Thrive, which reveals asset owners are gaining scale through consolidation and co-investment;
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