In this report, BNY Mellon looks at the challenges and opportunities for investors and managers, focusing in particular on the operational requirements that underpin successful business models.
In this report, BNY Mellon looks at the challenges and opportunities for investors and managers, focusing in particular on the operational requirements that underpin successful business models.
This white paper explores a range of innovative solutions that can help financial institutions and institutional investors meet today’s collateral challenges.
How our multi-asset investment process seeks effective diversification by diversifying risk across several low correlated strategies.
This white paper explores how RegTech and the Cloud can support a compliance team to create a more efficient way of working.
■ Yield curve changes are being driven by unconventional policies and technical factors, which make the moves harder to interpret.
■ Curve flattening in 2016 has resulted from changes to money market rules at the short end and central bank purchases at the long end.
■ Banks, municipalities and other borrowers are beginning to feel the pinch from rising Libor rates.
■ Fundamentals remain the most important consideration for bond investors and the most valuable guide for pursuing medium- to longer-term goals.
Leveraged credit markets continue to offer pockets of opportunity for selective investors at this juncture. On a longer term view, these markets retain a strategic appeal for asset allocators. Read more in this white paper.
How demographics, reform and capital are unlocking the next wave of emerging markets opportunity
Floating-rate loans deserve consideration as a strategic portfolio allocation because they can offer:
■ Attractive yields – The rate on loans was among the highest global fixed-income sectors (as of 30 April 2016).
■ Protection against interest-rate risk – Loans have near-zero duration and rates that move with the underlying benchmark – typically Libor.
■ A structure designed to mitigate credit risk – Senior/secured positioning in the capital structure offers a layer of protection that is unique in the corporate fixed-income market.
■ A forward-looking allocation – Loans historically have outperformed the broad bond market in flat and rising rate environments. We believe loans are likely to be an important source of diversification in the coming years.
■ High-yield bonds occupy a special capital market niche: They have offered better risk-adjusted returns than equities and lower interest-rate sensitivity than the broad fixedincome market.
■ To date, high-yield bonds have been less vulnerable to the adverse effects of rising rates than other fixed-income sectors and have provided positive total returns in rising rate markets.
■ Adding high-yield bonds to a broad fixed-income allocation has improved portfolio efficiency, based on 10-year hypothetical performance of blended portfolios.
■ Recent problems in the energy sector sparked a broad sell-off of high yield, resulting in value opportunities for investors with the expertise and diligence to select quality issuers.
Pioneer Investments believes its Market Neutral European Equity Strategy is differentiated from the competition due to a team approach to finding alpha across 13 different alpha sources.
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Comprehend, Comply, Compete |
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Watch our webinar where Gerard Walsh of Northern Trust Capital Markets talks about MiFIDII, the unbundling of investment research fees and what lies ahead for firms in their Comprehend, Comply and Compete journey. |
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The Digital Economy |
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Jeremy Gleeson, Portfolio Manager, AXA IM, Framlington Equities in conversation with Nick Fitzpatrick of Funds Europe uncovering the investment opportunities of the digital economy. |
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Our international editor, George Mitton, talks to Tilman Fechter at Clearstream Investment Fund Services about the increased demand on ETFs and whether a global infrastructure provider like Clearstream can share any evidence on this trend.
November 2018
FundTech 2018