What is the attraction of market neutral investing?
Obama recently announced that among other things, the US government was planning to prevent banks from engaging in any non-banking activities such as proprietary trading.
According to the Canadian Investment Management Research Study sponsored by Greenwich Associates, Canadian institutional equity portfolios are changing the way they invest. With the levy lifted on foreign investments, and investors’ desire to diversify and reap higher returns, the tendency to invest in foreign markets has increased. In 2007, allocations to international equity rose to […]
Pension plan sponsors should consider a tactical approach to hedging their foreign currency exposures. For Canadian pension plans, maintaining a successful currency strategy in periods of uncertainty requires an examination of several economic factors, including the long-term prospects for the Canadian dollar. The recent rise of the loonie and the removal of the foreign content […]