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Is Concentrated Investing Riskier in Today’s Uncertain Environment?
In a world of increased uncertainty, many investors’ natural instinct is to “hedge their bets” by diversifying, rather than investing in a concentrated strategy. But this year, a portfolio consisting of just the five largest US stocks would have significantly outperformed. So, is there a way to reduce risk and to capture long-term growth in a concentrated portfolio?
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Investing In Innovation
Change is happening rapidly, active management helps us identify and capitalize on significant inflection points.
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Active management to find yield in fixed income
Unprecedented monetary and fiscal measures by central banks and governments have installed a low-yield/low-volatility regime in developed bond markets. As investors search hard for yield, senior investment strategist Daniel Morris discusses the prospects for fixed income markets with Dominick DeAlto, chief investment officer fixed income.
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CLOs: Looking Down the Road to Recovery
CLOs rallied in the second quarter as liquidity returned and supply/demand dynamics began to normalize. While opportunities have emerged—particularly in high-rated tranches and new issue BBs—active management is key.
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Market weekly – Seize the opportunities with active equity strategies
After the recent strong rally in developed equity markets, senior investment strategist Daniel Morris and Guy Davies, chief investment officer active equity strategies, discuss the outlook and where we see opportunities.
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The Data Science Revolution
How the new richness and accessibility of data, and advances in data science, are enhancing both quantitative and traditional fundamental investment research—and sparking a revolution in active management.
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Equity Portfolio Construction: Filling the Gap Between Alpha and Beta
Separating equity alpha and beta is a good first step—but could investors be doing more in the space left between them?
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Simply Put(Writing)
PutWrite strategies can improve the risk-return efficiency, liquidity, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of investor portfolios.
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Unlocking human capital in emerging economies
All developing countries have a seriously under-tapped resource: their people. That’s important for emerging debt investors to bear in mind.
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Targeting positive returns in an uncertain climate
A decade after the global financial crisis, the uncertain economic conditions it ushered in continue to starve Europe’s investors of returns
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Partners Group: gaining from long-term tailwinds
Private markets, including equity and debt, infrastructure and real estate, stand out as a high-margin part of the asset management sector that is still expanding, with returns higher than those delivered by public markets.
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Quantitative Science—Actively Adding To Fixed Income Decisions
Quantitative vs. active debate? This Fixed Income Markets explains how our “active quant” approach sets us apart.
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Capitalizing on an inefficient market - The case for active REITs
When it comes to choosing ‘active’ versus passive management in REITs, the proof of ‘why active’ is in the results.
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Barometer: Struggling for inspiration
European stocks are a bright spot in an otherwise uninspiring equity market.
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Controversial weapons: a call to index providers
We are calling on index providers to exclude controversial weapons from mainstream indices.
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Investing In Chinese Onshore Debt - Overcoming the storm
Writing in the South China Morning Post Cary Yeung head of greater China debt explains why the country’s USD13 trillion onshore bond market is well-placed to overcome a weak yuan and the trade war.
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European Smaller Companies: An Evergreen Growth Opportunity
In this Q&A, Nick Williams, Barings’ Head of Small Cap Equities, discusses the opportunities his team is seeing in the current environment, and explains why an active approach, combined with rigorous, bottom-up stock selection, is key to identifying high-quality companies.
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A Guide To Responsible Investment Ratings At Columbia Threadneedle Investments
Our proprietary responsible investment (RI) ratings provide our global investment team with a robust responsible investment framework and enhanced analysis of over 5,500 companies around the world.
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Emerging Market Bonds—Standing On Their Own Two Feet
Some data demonstrates a stronger resilience to rising US rate than typically expected.
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Responsible Investment Quarterly Q4 2018
Cloud computing, machine learning and the potential of the, as yet, relatively untapped field of data science have been rapidly rising up the agenda of the investment world. In an industry that is undergoing seismic changes, the capabilities, reach and efficiencies that data science innovation offers have potential to play an important role