All Investors articles – Page 17
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CIO Insights: Four investing paradigms for an era of regime shifts
In a market environment characterised by disruptive trends and possible regime shifts, asset managers need to evolve and to enhance their capabilities to understand, measure and factor these new trends into investment processes.
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Risk Parity: Does One Size Fit All?
Investors worried about the next market downturn are searching for unique ways to diversify their portfolios, and risk parity, a risk-based multi-asset strategy, continues to be an area of interest.
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Floaters in Alternative Credit will help keep portfolios buoyant
The future is looking less certain for investors, also in fixed income. After a bull run lasting more than three decades, the prospect of western economies winding down quantitative easing and normalising their monetary policies creates the prospect of a more challenging, rising rate environment.
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Shared Thinking: In Pursuit Of Positive Skew
There are significant benefits to steering portfolios towards an improved skew in their profile of returns.
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5G: The Foundation for a Hyper-Connected World
Principal is sparking an ongoing conversation on transformational technologies and their influence on our world.
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Consistent Returns in a Changing World: Managing Political Risk Across Developed Market Equities
A powerful cocktail of economic headwinds, disparities in income between rich and poor, polarisation in beliefs and sporadic ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks has conspired to destabilise the political landscape across much of the developed world. Recent elections and referenda have had unforeseen results. Anti-establishment sentiment has flourished. Over recent years political risk has become accentuated, and has arguably not been so acute for a generation. Many of today’s active equity managers investing in developed markets have not faced the challenge of managing such specific political risks before in their investment careers.
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Do rising rates reduce returns on income assets?
Our research, which looks at episodes of rising rates since 1970, suggests income-producing assets don’t perform as investors might expect.
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Why investors need a multi-layered approach to risk
The experiences of the 21st century have sent investors in different directions. Low equity returns since the turn of the millennium have prompted a search for new sources of risk, yet the traumatic experience of the 2008-2009 financial crash have also exposed the limitations of traditional measures.
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What does the "Rise of the Robots" mean for asset prices?
The world could be heading for a dystopian or booming future thanks to the incredible advances being made in automation.
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The Cost of Trigger-Happy Investing
Brexit, Trump. There were plenty of big surprises last year. The one that may matter most for investment portfolios is how financial markets responded.
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Navigating MiFID II: Winning in the new regulatory environment
With only eight months until the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) comes into effect on 3 January 2018, everyone across the industry has their heads down working hard on solutions to the challenges and opportunities presented by the new regulation.
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ESG Investing and Portfolio Integration
Interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors is expanding at a rapid pace among institutional and retail investors around the world.
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Solving the Insurance Equation
Market Insight - Insurance companies don’t need telling that they face one of the most challenging environments in their long histories. The persistently-low interest rate environment, coupled with regulation that puts pressure on their capital requirements and constrains their investment strategies, has left many insurers scratching their heads over the way forward.
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House View: Q3 2016
The Aviva Investors House View document is a comprehensive compilation of views and analysis from the major investment teams.
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Enhancing Fixed Income Portfolios with Unconstrained Strategies
Perspective from Franklin Templeton Global Fixed Income research team
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End of the golden age
Traditional investment strategies based on the norms of the last thirty years will struggle to deliver the outcomes desired in a new era of lower growth and poorer returns.
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Managing cash flow risks with greater confidence using fixed income
As pension schemes mature many are reaching the tipping point at which payments to retirees exceed contributions and income from investment. Insight Investment’s Olaf John highlights how secured finance investments can help pension schemes manage cash flows while generating growth
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Measuring Portfolio Factor Exposures: A Practical Guide
Why Should Investors Care About Factor Exposures?