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Usually focusing on how to design the best low-volatility strategy, David Blitz, Matthias Hanauer and Pim van Vliet have set out to construct a very bad low-volatility strategy. Comparing good and bad low-volatility strategies they found very different performance characteristics. Clearly, not all low-volatility stocks are created equal. The results highlight the importance of being
AO talk manager selection and data gap
Discussing how they integrate sustainability across their portfolios investors at New York State Common Fund, PKA, and TCorp, highlight the importance of manager selection and the challenge of the data gap.
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Is the emerging markets
concept dated?
Are broad emerging-markets allocations still appropriate? By analysing the trend of mandate configuration, this paper by MSCI looks at whether the emerging-markets concept is dated and whether broad-based emerging-markets investing remains an appealing way to capture economic growth premium. Read the report here.
Wind of Change
Luxembourg is emerging as a key gateway for hedge fund managers as rapidly evolving investor demands and legislative changes are creating a fundamental shift in their business models. Northern Trust’s Ian Headon, product manager for hedge funds in EMEA, explores the jurisdiction’s growing opportunities for hedge fund managers. Click here to download the report
Infrastructure investments: down but far from out
Tony Rocker, partner global head of infrastructure funds at KPMG in the UK, reviews infrastructure funds in light of the current market downturn and concludes that, with a little realism and improved transparency, the sector can look forward to a sound future.
The logic against investing in handguns
There is a rational basis for not putting assets into handgun producers but emotions and politics cloud the issue. Judging the case on facts and figures, not dogma, makes the choice clear.
A decade needs a purpose
The decade ahead promises to be one in which purpose gets to be much more widely entrenched and influential. And asset owners have a role to play in the path to purposeful capitalism.
Carol Geremia on the need for transformational change
Carol Geremia, president, MFS Investment Management, urged FIS Maastricht delegates to help create a new investment model.
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