All Equities articles – Page 91
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White papersBasis Trade at Index Close (BTIC) Trading at Index Option Expirations
Most index options traders use index futures for hedging purposes.
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Equity Controlled Volatility Strategy
Equity volatility – or the “fear factor” as popularised in fiction – recently came back to the forefront of market operators’ minds, the result of events such as the Greek crisis during 2015 and questions around China’s economic growth prospects and plunging oil prices earlier this year.
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Measuring Portfolio Factor Exposures: A Practical Guide
Why Should Investors Care About Factor Exposures?
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White papersAlternative Beta: There is another way
As institutional investors urgently seek ways to truly diversify their portfolios, alternative beta strategies offer a low cost, liquid alternative to multi strategy and fund of hedge funds
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White papersAlternative beta as true diversifiers
Alternative betas can play the role of a true diversifier in a broad-based portfolio. They include various equity style factors and can be found across asset classes such as stocks, bonds, credit, currency and commodities.
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White papersThe Future Book: Unravelling Workplace Pensions
The Pensions Policy Institute, commissioned by Columbia Threadneedle Investments, has published a new compendium of DC statistics, “The Future Book”, setting out available data on the DC landscape, projections of the future aggregate value of DC assets, commentary and analysis of current trends.
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Absolute Return Fixed Income: Where does it fit in?
We define absolute return as a style of investing focused on alpha strategies with returns coming from beta largely excluded. While beta is usually positive, it may not always be.
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European equities: Finding the best investment approach
What impact have recent events in Europe, particularly Greece, and in China had on European equities?
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White papersNot all active managers are created equal: what to look for and why
This paper challenges the notion that active fund management – in aggregate and after fees – is a negative sum game. Indeed, the reward for selecting exceptional managers who deliver net outperformance can be a significant uncorrelated source of investment return.
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Deka: Reducing the Risks in Equity Investment
The challenge for many institutional investors is how to maintain exposure to the promising returns that equities offer over the long term despite limited risk budgets and renewed market volatility. The focus has shifted away from outperforming benchmarks in bull markets and towards achieving a comfortable return by controlling absolute ...
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Metzler: Diversifying alpha with alternative beta
Finding alternative sources of returns that are uncorrelated to equity and bond markets is a key objective for institutional investors seeking to construct robust portfolios of investments.
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An attractive way of gaining exposure to equity markets while limiting risk
Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management offers clients an Equity Low Vol solution. What needs does it address?
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PanAgora - Diversification beta strategies
Among equity investors the term “Alternative Beta” has come to refer to an alternative investment approach to passive capitalisation weighted (CW) portfolios.
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Are international equity market disparities opportunity sources for value investing?
Global financial markets have yet to fully take on board the effects of numerous events in 2014. Geopolitical risks featured prominently, including tensions in Ukraine, a rash of Middle Eastern conflicts and fresh political friction in the EU.
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Metzler: How can investors participate in a trend before it has ended?
Few people today would still insist that financial markets are efficient. Financial markets are driven by ideas and ideas do not flow instantaneously across markets.
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Edmond de Rothschild: Global Value - A global vision with a local approach
Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has been active in value investing for more than 15 years and as such has genuine expertise in this field.
