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Will China’s economy regain its roar in the Year of the Dragon?
As East Asia celebrates the Lunar New Year on 10 February 2024, investors in Chinese equities will be relieved to bid farewell to the disappointing Year of the Rabbit, and may wonder whether the Year of the Dragon – traditionally considered one of the luckiest in the Chinese zodiac – will live up to its reputation......
Additionality: the secret sauce or the snake oil of impact investing?
Many impact investors are keen to demonstrate or be assured that the world changed as a result of an investment made. Brunno Maradei, CFA, Global Head of Responsible Investment at Aegon AM, suggests there is a need to look beyond additionality in the pursuit of authentic impact investing
Is sustainable aviation fuel an oxymoron?
It is critical that we reduce and decarbonise aviation as soon as possible, but this is challenging as alternative technologies are not ready today. Does Sustainable aviation fuel offer a real-world way to continue flying more sustainably?
How to optimise diversification to improve risk-adjusted returns
How expected returns can be enhanced without increasing risks - can cutting-edge visualisation tools and a first-principles approach secure the predictable benefits of a diversified portfolio?
ESG, Credit Risk and Ratings: A Case Study
Can ESG ratings on sovereign credit help manage long-term risks?
Alternative cash flows take center stage for Swedish institutions
Carl Barnekow, SEB vetaran turned asset advisor at COIN, gives his view on where institutional investors are looking for alternative sources of income....
Alternative Risk Premia: An introduction
In the first of a series, we look at how Alternative Risk Premia can provide an uncorrelated source of return that can be added to investment portfolios....
Frontier Market Focus: Africa – Cinderella offers great promise
By 2025, Africa’s GDP is forecast to be one third of USA GDP but it seems like many international investors are giving up on the continent. We suggest that Africa perhaps deserves more attention than it´s getting....
Give a Little Credit
Making the case for the U.S. lower middle market and addressing myths of direct lending
30 Years of Impact Investing
Jupiter´s Charlie Thomas reflects on legacy, long-term thinking, labels and how to navigate an ever growing investment universe...
Private Equity Secondaries – An under-followed asset class
Jerome Marie of ODDO BHF explains why he believes that future outperformance lies in Private Equities secondary market.....
Mobile Money
Two billion individuals and 200 million small businesses in emerging economies today lack access to formal savings and credit. No wonder then that Financial Inclusion is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But opportunities does it bring to investors?
What are the key features of investing in alternative fixed income?
Alternative fixed income seems to mean many things to many people. Rob Evers provides an overview of characteristics for a very broad asset class......
Finding Value as the Momentum Fades
With fundamentals shifting, is 2019 seeing the return to value trades in global credit markets?
Frontier Market Focus: Uzbekistan
Finding the beginnings of growth cycles by staying off the beaten track....
Valuation Bifurcation Persists
We sit down with Jupiter´s James Clunie to discuss value vs growth and why it´s time that the markets again will recognise fundamental value....
Credit Market Outlook: Selection and Name-Picking Key
We asked Aperture Investors’ Chief CIO, Simon Thorp, where he is looking for long and short ideas in liquid corporate credit markets....
Veritas Pension Insurance Company’s Mid-Market Sweet Spot
In our interview with portfolio manager Laura Wickstrom, she explains what lies behind the Finnish group’s long-term success in private equity investing and how they chose which managers to work with....
Timing Allocations to Emerging Market Credit
While Emerging Markets is an asset class that can have bouts of volatility, it is difficult for investors to ignore given its diversification benefits, attractive valuations and the fact that about 70% of global economic growth emanates from it...
Credit and ESG Investing
The application of ESG to credit investing is rapidly evolving, and is, thus far, most well-developed in relation to investment grade corporate credit....
ETF Price War #2.0
Focus shifting to trading and transactions costs...
Are Illiquid strategies Immune from the Price War?
It very clear that fees have, for many years, been falling on traditional, long only investments, and also on relatively liquid alternative investments. Yet the headline fees for illiquid investments, such as private equity and infrastructure, appear to be much stickier – just as the assets are....
Balance sheet management: how much illiquidity can investors handle?
In the past few years, many institutional investors have increased their exposure to illiquid assets. This raises the question of how much illiquidity an investor can handle without letting its risk profile change substantially after a financial shock.....
Asian credit: could 2019 match 2009 and 1999 vintages?
"Asian credit now offers one of the three most compelling environments I have seen over my thirty-year career..." says Clearwater Capitals co-founder Rob Petty
2018 Year in Review
A brief summary of what Nordic institutions have pondered over in the year gone by....
The end of the road for coal?
Not only does coal have a significant climate impact – LGIM also believe that it’s a poor investment....
Global Growth Slows, With Trade Wars Biggest Risk
What lies ahead; State Street Global Advisors is first out to give their view on what investors can expect, and what they should be looking out for, in 2019....
Short Duration Credit – A Defensive, Late Cycle Strategy
Credit spreads have widened out in 2018, which has been the worst year since 2008 for some parts of the credit markets. Is it still possible to construct a defensive strategy through careful rules and credit selection?