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,
July 2016
Alternatives managers split on the benefits of ESG, finds Unigestion
Unigestion, the boutique asset manager with scale that focuses on guiding its clients with risk-managed investment solutions, has again surveyed the hedge fund and private equity managers it invests in to track their attitudes to (...)
Note,
July 2016
Investors go alternative
The research - which includes data on a diverse range of institutional investor types - shows that pension fund assets represent a third (34%) of the top 100 alternative managers’ assets, followed by wealth managers (19%), insurance companies (10%), sovereign wealth funds (...)
Note,
July 2016
Investors and Fund Managers Gauge Brexit Impact
Many fund managers expect performance and investment decisions to be affected, while institutional investors expect to commit less to the UK
Note,
July 2016
“There is no listed infrastructure asset class” : New EDHECinfra study finds no diversification benefits from 22 different proxies of listed infrastructure equity
EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra) has released a new paper entitled “Searching for a Listed Infrastructure Asset Class” establishing that listed infrastructure securities cannot be considered a unique asset (...)
Note,
June 2016
Robos helping to save the future
Barclays hosted its fifth annual UK Savings Conference on 8th June 2016, and the key takeaway was that Robo-Advice would have a significant role to play in closing the advice gap, but is akin to the rise of internet banking in the early (...)
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