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Is the party over?

Despite higher volatility, emerging market equities still offer great opportunities for the smart investor, writes Ben Clissold.

Creative management

Following the collapse of real gilt yields in recent months, pension plan trustees are looking for alternative ways to manage risk, writes James Maggs.

Managing buyouts

The market for the buyout of existing pensioner liabilities can offer fantastic opportunities, writes Andrew Dawson.

No active constraints

Unconstrained investing gives managers the freedom to follow their best ideas, enabling skilled managers to excel, writes Lennox Hartman.

Aymeric Poizot, Fitch Ratings’ EMEA Fund and Asset Management Group

Demanding transparency

Increasing risk aversion as a result of the liquidity crisis has hit small and mid-cap stocks hard, writes Aymeric Poizot.

The liquidity crisis that started in July 2007 in the US real estate market has triggered a “flight to quality” phenomenon, which has led investors to move their capital to “safer” assets.

Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Redington Partners LLP

How to measure risk

Dawid Konotey-Ahulu explains three complementary approaches to measuring risk within pension funds.

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