Global practice director of Towers Watson Investment, Carl Hess, explains why the consultant has conviction in the ability to exploit mispricing between asset classes, and when dynamic strategic asset allocation works.
The China Miracle 3.0
A gradual appreciation of the Chinese currency, although probably too gradual for some in the west, signals a far more fundamental evolutionary phase for this nation than currency management.
An emerging markets strategy with some twists, from the Gulf
Gulf International Bank, which is owned by the six governments of the Gulf Co-operation Council, has launched an innovative emerging markets fund which uses various hedge fund strategies to provide investors with absolute returns.
Revisiting global small caps
This research insight by MSCI, shows global small caps still exhibit distinct characteristics that provide opportunities for portfolio diversification and active management.
Start smelling the chocolates
The intelligent investor, managing director of Bedlam Asset Management, Jonathan Compton, says will look forward not back. Instead of reporting on the rescue of those countries already defaulting, he believes Belgium could be the next nation to default.
The more foreign the market, the more funds-of-funds
The world’s largest institutional investors are increasingly building their own home-region private equity programs, but turning to fund-of-funds for the rest of the world particularly when it comes to Asia, says a Hong Kong-based partner of the first fund-of funds to ever build a product covering that region.
