June 2015

FIXED INCOME: Pastures new

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The bond bull market might – perhaps – be over, but QE is boosting Europe’s €480 billion high yield market, finds David Stevenson, who...

INSIDE VIEW: The bread and butter of global fund distribution

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Laurent Denayer of EY in Luxembourg condenses a year of patterns in fund distribution into one neat set of idioms. 2014 was an excellent year...

INDEX FUNDS: The trackers remain on track

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The meteoric rise of exchange-traded funds has left traditional index funds in the shade. But as Alix Robertson finds, sales of old-style trackers have...

LEGAL EASE: Pursuing an Africa fund strategy

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While Africa has long been cited as a market that offers great opportunity for private equity, its development has been held back by the...

INSIDE VIEW: Perhaps the cleanest option

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James Hulse of the CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) looks at how ESG factors can be integrated into valuation methodologies at a time when...

BACK OFFICE VIEW: Regulatory fines underline importance of data stewardship

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People’s jaws drop when they read about the huge fines imposed on fund managers for a variety of shortcomings, ranging from pricing discrepancies to...

FUND LAUNCHES: Fund launches review – June 2015

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We profile some of the most interesting fund launches in recent weeks and examine the performance of a product already on the market. GOVERNMENT BONDSWith...

EDHEC RESEARCH: A smart idea

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Investors are keen on smart beta ETFs, says Felix Goltz of the Edhec-Risk Institute, who illustrates the popularity of investment factors. But investors also...

ASSOCIATION COLUMN: Distribution of investment funds

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The European distribution landscape is undergoing dramatic changes. The UK and the Netherlands have, in different ways, prohibited advisers from being paid inducements by...

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