All Strategies articles – Page 42
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White papersAsset Allocation Update: New year, evolving views, same growth aims
As we move into 2018 we have spent some time evaluating the work we performed last year, as well as revisiting our current asset allocation positioning.
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White papersResponsible Investment Quarterly: Q4 2017
On the heels of two good years in the bond market, the best days for fixed income are likely behind us.
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White papersPotential New Emerging Markets On The Block: Argentina, Saudi Arabia And Romania
As an active manager focused on the emerging markets (EM), Mirae Asset not only looks at the current EM universe, but also at leading economies within the frontier index with forthcoming prospects for inclusion into the EM benchmarks.
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White papers25 years’ experience provides platform for outperformance in Emerging Market Debt sector
Investors were given a wake-up call in February on the challenges posed by normalising monetary policy when strong economic data in the US sparked fears that interest rates would rise faster than expected, causing the global equity correction.
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White papersValue Investing – A Contrarian Bet Within European Equities
When investors structure and diversify their equity portfolios, a key reference is the value/growth style framework that has dominated the fund industry for decades. Once target allocations are set, investors then select the funds offering the most appropriate risk and reward characteristics.
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White papersHolding Active Management to a Higher Standard
Data points cannot come close to telling the full story of William Blair’s approach to active management; our story is one defined by our constant evolution.
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White papersWhat the recent market move means for European credit
Not a cycle reversal. We qualify the recent price actions as corrections, not as a cycle reversal. This position is mainly supported by past performance: profit taking is appealing when volatility increases.
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White papersMarket sell-off requires more emphasis on diversification
Market sell-off. After more than a year without a significant correction, equity markets declined as interest rates moved sharply higher due to concerns that inflation may be rising.
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White papersRight 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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White papersAdding Science to the Art of Active Management
Most investors understand that equities and bonds have a fundamental value – an anchor or a centre of gravity to which price should typically converge over the intermediate- to long-term.
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White papersMegatrends and disruptions: Consequences for asset management
The asset management industry has to face three different types of challenges.
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White papersReal assets: what contribution to asset allocation, especially in times of crisis?
Sacrificing some portfolio liquidity can be profitable. Ultra-low bond rates, equities that are highly volatile and thus sometimes seen as too expensive, the search for yield and the search to capture a liquidity premium are all pushing institutional investors toward the unlisted or «real asset» universe.
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White papersThe "new normal" turned into the old normal: Our economic outlook for 2018
In this year’s global economic outlook we examine the outlook for the United States and the rest of the world, ask if the coming fiscal stimulus in developed countries could boost this expansion even further, try to shed some light on how central bank attempts to normalize monetary policy might impact the stock market, and investigate the asset class implications of this cyclical upturn and of less-accommodative monetary policy.
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White papersRisk 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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White papersFloaters 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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White papersShared 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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White papersAnalysing the Exposure of Low-volatility Equity Strategies to Interest Rates
At the dawn of a potential rise in rates triggered by Central Banks in both Europe and the United States, doubts are being raised about the ability of low-volatility portfolios to continue to deliver robust performance.
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White papersThe Science and Art of Multi-Asset Investing
Generating consistent returns under uncertain conditions is a challenge. Can multi-asset strategies make the job a little easier? We think so. But a lot depends on how they’re designed.
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White papersA Guide to Alternative Risk Premia
For years, academics and investors have been researching sources of return to understand what drives outperformance. Increasingly, this research has been focused on alternative risk premia strategies, a form of factor-based investing which is now entering the mainstream.
