When Chickens Come Home to Roost Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets Chicken farms and almond plantations are perhaps not the first things that come to mind when thinking about investments. But these agricultural investments have proven to be quite a find for First State Super. 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
Hedging with Hindsight at VFMC Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets, Risk and Regulation What if you could design your hedging strategy with 20/20 hindsight? We asked VFMC’s Mark Aaron how to best address this question. 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
Mind The Gap Asset Allocation & Strategy, Chief Investment Officers, Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative Markets China Pacific Insurance Group CIO Ben Deng speaks to [i3] Insights about the challenges of closing the asset/liability gap in today’s low-yielding environment and shares his excitement about opportunities in Chinese private equity. Read More
How to Spot a Unicorn Opinion, Private & Alternative Markets What is the real difference between venture capital and private equity? Right Click Capital partner Benjamin Chong gives his view and provides a road map to how to spot unicorns. Read More
Adventures in Crypto Land Editorial, Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets Opinions on the sense of investing in cryptocurrencies are divided, so we decided to run a live experiment and see what a small crypto investment would involve. Read More
Securitisation and the Willingness to Repay Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance Securitisation was almost thrown out with the bathwater in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralised debt obligations (CDO), containing sub-prime mortgages, almost brought down the financial system. But since then the securitisation market has undergone significant change, both in regulations and attitudes towards risk. And in a world […] Read More
February Didn’t Kill Crisis Alpha Financial Crisis, Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance The Crisis Risk Offset approach to constructing portfolios has gained some popularity in the US in recent years, but the surprising performance of trend-following strategies in February this year led some people to question the approach. Kathryn Kaminski, who coined the term crisis alpha, examines the evidence. Read More
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