With global debt at extreme levels and interest rates bottoming out, Patrick Roos looks at how a risk parity portfolio can be best managed in the current environment

Pension funds must index more of their assets and concentrate their efforts on active management of market risks

Understanding the underlying sources of private equity returns can help close the gap between expectations and reality, writes Richard Tyszkiewicz

Laven Partners’ Jerome Lussan examines the strenuous art of operational due diligence and why there are no shortcuts to avoiding fraud and abuse

Regulation should look at the probability of meeting future cash flows to stop Swedish life companies being forced to sell risky assets in falling markets

An enhanced tail-risk approach can help investors to identify hotspots and safe spots, write Boryana Racheva-Iotova and Ivan Mitov

Fidelity’s Duncan Squire explains why the interest in alternative weighting schemes raises a wider debate about the value of benchmark anchoring

While many investors are relying on cash or government bonds to withstand the financial turmoil, low volatility stocks may be the way forward

ICGN's Kerrie Waring explains how a recent EC initiative will help investors better integrate ESG information into investment decision

Emerging market private debt offers investors attractive opportunities as borrowers in emerging markets continue to pay a significant premium