Does your portfolio have bad breadth? Choosing essential betas

In this article, Ed Peters, co-director of global macro at First Quadrant, Ed Peters, examines what markets, or betas, are essential to fully diversitfy a global portfolio, while still achieving long-term goals; and how breadth is often confused with diversification.

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An emerging markets strategy with some twists, from the Gulf

Gulf International Bank, which is owned by the six governments of the Gulf Co-operation Council, has launched an innovative emerging markets fund which uses various hedge fund strategies to provide investors with absolute returns.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Start smelling the chocolates

The intelligent investor, managing director of Bedlam Asset Management, Jonathan Compton, says will look forward not back. Instead of reporting on the rescue of those countries already defaulting, he believes Belgium could be the next nation to default.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

The more foreign the market, the more funds-of-funds

The world’s largest institutional investors are increasingly building their own home-region private equity programs, but turning to fund-of-funds for the rest of the world particularly when it comes to Asia, says a Hong Kong-based partner of the first fund-of funds to ever build a product covering that region.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

AP1 doubles alternatives

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Nerds must leave herd says PanAgora chief

There is room for more innovation in funds management, says chief executive of PanAgora Asset Management, Eric Sorensen, who believes being different is critical to success.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Sovereign funds open up cautiously

Sovereign wealth funds have captured the imagination of investment professionals and politicians alike over the past few years. Perhaps because of the large sums of money at their disposal, there has been a degree of wariness about the intentions of some. Most, after all, are controlled by governments.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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