Latest White Papers – Page 365
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White papersGlobal high yield multi-credit strategies: Finding sense in a nonsensical world
With 40% or more of the Eurozone sovereign debt market offering negative yields, a new investor to the global debt markets may well be thinking he has wandered into the Mad Hatter’s tea party.
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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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Five Questions CIOs Should Ask Investment Managers About ESG
As risk management has drawn more attention in recent years, institutional investors who have integrated environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) considerations into their process have put themselves in a better position to assess risks and opportunities in their portfolios. In our view, keeping track of how companies handle ESG ...
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Current European Macroeconomic Situation is Favourable for M&A Deals
Is today’s macroeconomic situation favourable for Europe?
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Implementing absolute return in a multi-asset framework
Institutions face challenges in a low-return market environment frequently interrupted with phases of high volatility. Many are seeking to improve portfolio risk-adjusted returns (Sharpe ratio) without sacrificing return objectives. Logically, two approaches are possible: pursuing a portfolio’s required rate of return with less volatility, or seeking to increase returns without ...
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Ageing population: challenge for societies, opportunity for companies
The ageing of the population: under pressure More and more of us are getting older… A fact of life but the stark reality is that this long term demographic shift is inevitable and is already putting a great strain on our societies and economic models.
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Currency wars highlight risk and opportunity
After a positive first half risk assets are now on the back foot. Heightened volatility in currency markets has been particularly unsettling for emerging markets. Whether investors view currencies as a risk to be managed or an opportunity to be exploited the message is clear: doing nothing is not an ...
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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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Generating returns and managing volatility: the absolute return approach to convertible bonds (October 2015)
The past months have been characterised by an unprecedented low rate environment coupled with unprecedented monetary easing policies. The continuous search for yield has pushed institutional investors out of their comfort zone, having to further diversify, to rethink their investment approach and risk budgets within a context of asset allocation ...
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Private debt markets: Asset owners can work together
Pension funds and other long-term asset owners are developing a greater appetite for private-sector loans. But the benefits of diversification and reliable yield come with the cost of greater analysis, more complex, idiosyncratic legal agreements and less liquidity. To weather these challenges, the best help might come from a like-minded ...
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Doing well by doing good: Why sustainability delivers a double bottom line
Significant transformation within the energy industry that increasingly supports sustainable infrastructure is under way. Demand for clean energy is rising, driven by chronic underinvestment in infrastructure, new policy and regulation, more competitive costs of renewable fuels, efficiency technologies, and heightened consumer awareness. As demand grows for low-carbon transport, low-carbon electricity, ...
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Debt, distortion and navigating credit markets
Markets have been distorted by unprecedented central bank intervention. In spite of talk of policy normalisation, the burden of debt is a significant constraint. Finding opportunities in credit markets will require innovative investment approaches, writes Insight Investment’s Head of Credit, Alex Veroude
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Convertible Bonds: An attractive asset class in today’s environment
Convertibles are hybrid securities combining features of both bonds and equities with the capability to give investors access to “best of both worlds”. In today’s volatile equity markets and low interest rate environment, they are particularly interesting.
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Pension Risk Transfer Gains Momentum in a Low Interest-Rate Environment
The pension risk transfer space continues to proliferate, with plan sponsors from an array of market sectors, firm sizes and geographical locations proactively transferring pension risk to insurance companies.
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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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Is now the right time to de-risk?
The authors explain why companies with well-funded plans should take bold steps to de-risk now.
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Now Trending: A Lower Risk Future
Records are breaking in the UK and the pension risk transfer market is more flexible and more global than ever.
