PHILIPPA YELLAND, Author at Top1000funds.com

Securities body ramps up risk surveillance

Securities watchdog, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), has revamped its structure to better identify market risks and develop regulatory standards for capital markets.

PHILIPPA YELLANDApril 27, 2011

Rational agents can upset asset-pricing paradigm

In contrast to the standard paradigm about momentum and reversal in markets being caused by agents reacting wrongly, new research shows that these phenomena can arise in markets with rational agents.

PHILIPPA YELLANDApril 20, 2011

UniSuper loads its CMBS shopping trolley

UniSuper is spearheading Australian super funds as alternative sources of institutional‐grade debt funding through an allocation of $264 million to Australian commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS).

PHILIPPA YELLANDApril 20, 2011

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Most managers set to look outside the US

The managers most in demand by US investors are those with compelling presences in global and emerging markets’ equities, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, private equity and real assets.

PHILIPPA YELLANDApril 13, 2011

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Indonesia pips China in emerging markets equity race

In Asia’s emerging markets equities race, China is the fastest growing by size, but Indonesia has ranked first in growth in both the past five and 10 years.

PHILIPPA YELLANDApril 6, 2011

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Investors must be conscious about currency says Russell

Institutional investors are being urged to embrace ‘conscious currency’ by thinking of currency risks as unmanaged active portfolios, and therefore develop responses to deal separately with those risks.

PHILIPPA YELLANDMarch 23, 2011