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Articles by Ian Hissey
Investing in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
The Chinese equity market is becoming easier to access for foreign institutional investors with the recent removal of QFII and RQFII investment quotas. Increasingly, asset managers and pension funds are starting to foray into this market, attracted to the potential returns on offer. Therefore, understanding the dynamics of the market is a requisite for global and domestic Chinese firms alike.
Are Supply Chain Relationships the Causation for Correlation?
Performance and Risk By Bill McCoy | May 2, 2017 Everyone agrees that understanding correlation is important for risk-aware portfolio management. However, working with correlation is difficult for a variety of reasons, and the trend in quantitative portfolio management is to reduce the dimensionality of correlation and thus eliminate correlation between entities.
Six Takeaways from Key Risk Providers on the Latest Trends and Solutions in Risk Management
Performance and Risk By Alyx Flournoy, CFA | March 19, 2019 Over the past decade, there has been a huge demand for risk management as well as a significant increase in demand for risk modeling and risk analytics in the financial industry. We’ve seen disruption in the industry over the past couple of years, particularly around massive consolidation, analytics providers in the fixed income space, and in the index solution space.
Turbulence Adjusted Risk: Applications for Asset Allocation and Selection
Performance and Risk By Alyx Flournoy, CFA | January 16, 2019 Observations of financial markets have shown that while many financial risk models rely on the assumption of normal return distributions, financial instruments can exhibit extremely non-normal behavior, even in supposedly calm markets. The relevance of new measures for market calmness, or lack thereof, is emerging as we see the new “normal” regime turning more to increased market volatility and turbulence.
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