Investment
Volatility scaling flops in credit alt risk premia
Strategies miss recovery from March plunge, prompting rethink on speed of mean reversion
Sometimes it’s fine to be boring
Diversification puts portfolios in the middle of the pack – where investors feel safe, writes Antonia Lim
Top European insurers bet on private equity
Allianz and Axa had a combined €29 billion at end-2019
China bond buyers tiptoe through credit analysis minefield
State backing for domestic companies is hard to gauge, as new investors are discovering
Quant firm deploys new metric for Covid sensitivity
Los Angeles Capital debuts new factor for measuring stocks’ sensitivity to the pandemic
Margin calls on eurozone funds rose fivefold in March
ECB data shows some funds faced liquidity squeeze as VM calls flooded in
Some quants fear more deleveraging to come
Buy-siders brace for further selling after hedge funds dumped risk in March
Covid-19 tumult is testing AI fund returns
Some ML strategies have coped well, but others began to struggle as panic mounted
Seeing red over blue-chip swap in Argentina’s NDF fiasco
Emta protocol salve aside, peso settlement rate snafu is a warning for emerging market FX derivatives
Lighting up the black box: a must for investors?
Many contend you must be able to interpret machine learning in order to use it
Asia moves: JP Morgan names new Apac CEO, Axa hires six heads, and more
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‘Quantamental’ approach convinces Morgan Creek CEO
Proponent of big-picture investing sees growing role for machines, but with caveats
The pricing of firm-specific risk in emerging markets
This paper finds that a zero-investment strategy that goes long (short) in the highest (lowest) quintiles of firm-specific risk earns overall positive excess returns across twenty-one emerging markets.
A growing focus on op risk
Operational risk and resilience have taken centre stage over the past year. While op risk concerns all systems and controls that deliver effective solutions against the risks financial services businesses regularly face, Jonathan Peddie, partner at Baker…
Caveat pre-emptor: Man ESG chief talks snubbed markets
Robert Furdak is sparking discussions about responsible trend following in unsustainable stocks
Equity gains bolster EU hedge funds’ portfolios
Funds were net sellers of equities, but market gains added +10% to balance sheet values
New Mifid equivalence rules leave UK firms in limbo
Revised market access rules won’t kick in until six months after UK leaves single market
Margin exchange threshold relief: get out of jail free?
‘Game-changing’ IM exchange threshold relief may not be the phase five free pass it first appears
Asia moves: Natixis hires Asia M&A chief, Deutsche Bank picks north Asia head, and more
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