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  • Rethinking fixed income: an alternative approach to emerging markets
    Emerging market debt is an asset class that is well suited to an absolute return approach. Current market dynamics make...
    Sherilee Mace
    Director, Business Development
    Insight Investment
    October 1, 2015
    Focus
  • The energy transition and the stranded assets debate – an investment risk or opportunity?
    Cathrine de Coninck-Lopez of Threadneedle looks at the potential impact of steps taken by the global community to mitigate climate...
    Cathrine de Coninck-Lopez
    Sustainable and Responsible Investment Officer
    Threadneedle
    December 1, 2014
    Focus
  • Are alternatives for everyone?
    New research by Aberdeen Asset Management confirms that pension schemes are investing in an increasingly wide range of asset classes...
    December 1, 2014
    Focus
  • Impact investing – a more effective way of doing good
    Christopher Head from BlackRock discusses the conventional ways that ethical investing is undertaken, outlines the shortcomings of these approaches, and...
    Christopher Head
    Head of UK Local Authorities, Institutional Client Business
    BlackRock
    December 1, 2014
    Focus
  • Making the most of alternatives
    Matthew Craig examines why uncertainty for equities and bonds has meant that local authorities are increasingly turning to alternatives in...
    Matthew Craig
    LAPF Investments
    December 1, 2014
    Focus
  • Private equity co-investments – the need for a careful approach
    Private equity has been garnering interest amongst pension funds. Tim Creed of Adveq examines how co-investing can help investors access...
    Tim Creed
    Managing Director and Head of European investments
    Adveq
    November 9, 2013
    Focus
  • Finding attractive opportunities in distressed investments
    Marianna Fassinotti of Siguler Guff looks at opportunities for pension funds in distressed asset investing For the first time in three...
    Marianna Fassinotti
    Principal
    Siguler Guff
    November 1, 2013
    Focus
  • Alternative investments and local authority pension funds
    Investment in alternative assets might be generating more talk than action, but alternatives to the mainstream asset classes are indisputably...
    Matthew Craig
    LAPF Investments
    November 1, 2013
    Focus
  • Searching for the oasis of return
    Mark Hale of Prytania examines the options in structured finance for investors in search of yield Six years on from the...
    Mark Hale
    Chief Investment Officer
    Prytania Investment Advisors
    November 1, 2013
    Focus
  • Residential or commercial?
    Many investors are familiar with commercial property as an asset class. Adrian Gaspar of Hearthstone investments looks at residential property...
    Adrian Gaspar
    Technical Sales Manager
    Hearthstone Investments
    November 1, 2013
    Focus
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