The importance of the right benchmark
A new paper by EDHECInfra argues that selecting the right benchmark could completely change investors' preferred asset allocation to infrastructure equity and debt.
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The changing nature of fixed income
As the fixed income asset class undergoes rapid change and the opportunity set expands, unconstrained bond funds have become popular. But as this article examines, with that expanded opportunity set comes new considerations including a wider risk/return spectrum among managers. Trends in the global investment universe tend to come around every six months or
How active is your real estate fund manager?
Using detailed data from IPD, this paper looks at the holdings and performance of 256 UK commercial real estate funds from 2002-2011. It concludes the more active funds, those further from benchmark holdings, outperform but are not accompanied by higher risk. To access the paper click here How active is your real estate fund
NZ Super: contrarian Kiwis rewrite rules
No one who works at New Zealand Super has a business card that has an asset class attached to it. This simple representation speaks volumes to the investment approach taken by the fund. One could work for the strategy team or the investment analysis team, but the investment structure by which NZ Super invests, such
A series of shorts
don’t make a long
It is easy for long-term investors to avoid short termism, and the solution lies in avoiding momentum and conducting risk analysis using cash flows – not market pricing. “Diversification is a joke. Diversification and risk analysis relies on pricing, but pricing is distorted because it’s driven by momentum,” says Paul Woolley, chairman of the Paul
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