At the Foothills of a New Cold War Financial Crisis The world is at the foothills of a new cold war as the coronavirus pandemic has revealed the geopolitical fault lines that have developed in recent years in the relationship between the United States and China, geopolitics expert Alan Dupont says. Read More
Risk Mitigation Helps OPTrust Limit Losses Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Financial Crisis, Private & Alternative Markets Canadian fund OPTrust employs a risk mitigating portfolio to help protect the fund from the worst of the volatility that can be experienced in growth assets, and it has proven quite resilient during the recent turmoil. Read More
Fixed Income ETFs Pass Liquidity Test Financial Crisis, Fixed Income & Credit As bond markets froze up in March of this year, when the scale of the pandemic became clear, fixed income ETFs remained liquid and experienced record trading volumes. We speak to BlackRock’s Steve Laipply to see how these ETFs held up under their first real life stress test. Read More
Eyeing Distressed Investments Financial Crisis, Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative Markets Asset consultant bfinance surveys distressed and opportunistic strategies and finds frantic capital raising activity. But not all strategies are equal, as the pandemic means a lack of track records and increased competition in some sectors. Read More
Behavioural Science and Pandemics Behavioural Finance, Financial Crisis During a pandemic people change their behaviour radically and this change affects the global economy. Can behavioural sciences help in developing sensible policies? Read More
Portfolio Construction Post Crisis Editorial, Financial Crisis As the pandemic starts to slow down across the world, how has the crisis affected investors’ approaches to portfolio construction? Read More
Future Fund Limits Drawdown Asset Owners, Financial Crisis The Future Fund has managed limit the impact of falling equity markets on its portfolio by selling out of unlisted assets. Read More
Unlisted Assets Should be Valued More Often Financial Crisis, Private & Alternative Markets, Real Estate Asset owners should value their unlisted assets more frequently in the current market environment, according to Willis Towers Watson. Read More
Crisis Risk Offset seems to work, but… Editorial, Financial Crisis, Innovation Now that we are in a real time crisis, how are crisis risk offset strategies behaving? Early results are encouraging, but by no means conclusive. Read More
