All Strategies articles – Page 27
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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 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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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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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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Flexible, dynamic solutions for portfolio risk management
Overlay Management is basically a quantitative, disciplined and dynamic solution to risk management with one, simple goal: giving stability to client portfolios.
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The case for pension funds to consider buy and maintain
Why should pension funds consider a buy and maintain strategy and how are such strategies being used by pension funds?
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Russell Indexes - Smart beta implementation strategies
Insights into how smart beta is being implemented, focusing on the survey responses of over 50 asset owners that currently have smart beta allocations
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Active or passive? That's the wrong question
The debate over active versus passive investment has been raging for 50 years now – for much of that time, unproductively.
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Edmond de Rothschild: M&A deals are back - companies are feeling confident again
Interview with Philippe Lecoq, manager of the Edmond de Rothschild Europe Synergy fund
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The Free Lunch Effect: The Value of Decoupling Diversification and Risk
In this piece, we will discuss why thinking about diversification and risk independently may help investors to build more efficient portfolios. In particular, we introduce a way to think about the diversification potential of portfolios, or the Free Lunch Effect.
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Improving portfolio efficiency with multi-asset absolute return strategies
Most institutional investors are searching for strategies to improve risk-adjusted returns (Sharpe ratio) without sacrificing return.
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Russell Indexes: The quest for the Holy Grail
A short Q&A with Rolf Agather, Managing Director of Research & Innovation for Russell Indexes at Russell Investments.
