All Risk Management articles – Page 2
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A Preliminary Language for a Post-Global World
This book sets out what we see as the key issues facing asset owners in the macro environment, and shares the outlook for capital markets, strategic allocation and the future of the investment industry. It will also explore how the next ten years are likely to be very different from the 1980–2020 period.
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Evaluating risk and reward in an ever-changing world
Private markets have grown exponentially since the Global Financial Crisis, and the growth story is far from over. We explore the risks and rewards of this often complex world and why expertise is crucial in achieving tangible results.
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Calculated Risk Management: Strategy, Tools and Culture for Equity Portfolios
Investors need a better grasp of risk-management tools to gauge a portfolio’s strategic resilience in a rapidly changing world.
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Spotting Hidden Extension Risk in Corporate Hybrids
Failure to call a hybrid at the first opportunity is rare but, if realised, can be negative for investors—can we identify the telltale signs of heightened risk?
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Investing in an Interconnected World: Cross-Industry Linkages
Capturing companies’ relationships and interconnections across industries in the course of the investment process can help identify new opportunities and limit portfolio risks.
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2024 Best Ideas: Rethinking Resiliency and Risk
Our 2024 Best Ideas offers investors a look at where we see opportunity, while our case studies show how we help our clients overcome obstacles.
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Stay Focused on Earnings
Should a sticky inflation release cause investors to revise their outlook for equities?
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The climate-health nexus: risks and opportunities
As investors, we are increasingly considering and assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the economy, financial markets, and our portfolios.
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Engagement case study: Prudential
We have been engaging with Prudential since 2010 on a range of issues including board effectiveness, culture, risk management, sustainability strategy, and remuneration.
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The Investment Podcast: The long-term megatrend of European private asset-backed finance
While Europe’s private asset-backed finance markets have been growing in importance for a number of years, it’s only in recent years where we’ve seen the regulatory pressures that banks are facing come to the fore, fuelling a strong desire to shrink balance sheets and increase capital.
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Taking Flight: The Opportunity in Aircraft Financing
Investments in aircraft can offer steady cash flow and a return profile that’s uncorrelated to broad market indices.
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Costing the Earth: measuring corporations’ impact on biodiversity loss
Investors can no longer afford to ignore the devastating economic effects of biodiversity loss, but they need better tools to assess and manage the risks. We introduce the new scientific research by our academic partners at the MISTRA FinBio programme which should help guide investors.
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How distressed debt can help spread risk and diversify returns
In 2024, there are multiple macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges that are likely to continue to impact global markets. At the same time these challenges are likely to lead to a rich opportunity set for a special situations investment strategy.
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Fiorino: Where physics meets finance
Fiorino visits Switzerland to uncover the hidden links between the most successful particle physics theory to date and the ongoing Basel bank capital risk management experiment (now in version IV)…
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Earnings Remain Key in a Confusing Macro Picture
Macro uncertainty is high, but the earnings season has been solid—and not only in the U.S.
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Institutional investors’ approaches to responsible investing
In this paper, we aim to understand institutional investors’ approach to responsible investing, which has become an important consideration in many investors’ portfolio management decisions. We conduct in-depth qualitative interviews with more than twenty institutional investors – mostly consisting of pension plans and central banks –, and complement our insights with relevant findings from academic literature.
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Multi-asset: a cycle without a textbook?
The year 2024 begins in a market cycle that is far from textbook. What types of scenarios might this give rise to? We outline the possibilities in this quarterly edition of Simply put. Notably, our projections suggest that we are at the dawn of a challenging period for Sharpe ratios, where risk-taking could be poorly rewarded.
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Some Credit for Active Management
Tempted by high yield? Here’s why we think investors may want to consider resisting the temptation to invest passively.
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Allview: Market Risk Monitor - December 2023
Each month, Allspring’s Investment Analytics team assembles a top 10 list of market risks that it believes have the potential to influence investment portfolios.
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Building a regime-resistant, long-run allocation in multi asset
MARS, our Multi-Asset Research Series, focuses on complex topics in the realm of multi asset to bring quantitative investment research back to Earth. This fourth edition considers how to bridge the gap between existing approaches – the multi-regime distribution of assets and risk-parity investing – in order to optimise risk-based portfolio construction.