With the return to favour of top-down equities management and renewed focus by pension funds on their asset allocation and beta exposures, there has consequently been a resurgence in thematic investment styles and products.
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Risk-averse investors widen search for safe havens
While a flight to quality characterised the response of investors to the previous financial crisis, the latest figures on capital flows reveal that the new risk-off landscape could involve a wider search for safe havens, following the recent market tumble.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
DB dose needed to purge DC parasites
This month Australia celebrated 20 years of its compulsory superannuation guarantee system. Observing the past two decades, “entrepreneurial academic” Jack Gray has some advice for those rebooting their system, and it’s not defined contribution. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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Back to the future: short-selling ban lambasted
Cliff Asness must be a very stressed man. Not only has he been “mad as hell” for nearly three years (or is it mad again?) but also the reprise in responses by regulators around the globe to market crises, namely banning short selling, means he doesn’t have to write any original words in response.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored
Texas Teachers examines incentive pay to staff
The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has reviewed the benchmarks it used to calculate investment staff compensation after concerns were raised over the level of bonuses it paid to senior staff earlier in the year.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Are pension funds really long-term investors?
Pension funds used to be considered long-term investors, but the reactionary behaviour of a recent prudence* of pension funds globally has changed my view of their time-horizons and subsequent role in capital markets. *Prudence is the newly-crowned collective noun for pension funds as per the competition in our newsroom. Have your say in our poll.
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