All Investors articles – Page 8
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White papersHow to use a lean, green weighing machine
Investors are increasingly challenging the notion that traditional benchmarks represent their default guide to allocating capital. Nowhere is this more evident than in the wish to allocate capital responsibly for the long-term.
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Evolving investment landscape offers index providers opportunity to shine
The markets are undergoing a period of profound change.
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Right outcome & real income: a Multi-Asset approach
For most investors, diversifying via uncorrelated - or less correlated - sources of performances is key to medium / long term investment success, while efficient asset allocation becomes even more relevant in the current regime of low yields and lower returns.
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Mindboggled: Why Your Brain Makes Bad Investing Decisions
AllianceBernstein portfolio manager Stuart Rae explains how lessons from classic behavioural finance studies can help investors improve the choices they make today.
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Back to long-term investing in the age of geopolitical risk
A sunny outlook with cloudy skies. That’s how investors see their current investment prospects.
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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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Asian Structured Products
In this paper, the authors examine the nature of structured products, why they are used, and by whom.
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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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Adding Science to the Art of Active Management
As the shift from active to passive investing in the discretionary equity space has continued to accelerate, it has become evident that traditional active asset management firms
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Navigating the next phase of market behaviour
Defined investment outcomes are becoming increasingly valued, especially in light of the expected lower returns for traditional asset classes that have been widely forecast.
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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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The Only Spending Rule Article You Will Ever Need
After examining an array of approaches to determining a spending rule for retirees, the authors propose the annually recalculated virtual annuity.
