March to a domestic bias

Many investment managers believe that you should avoid home bias when managing long term investments. Concentrating too much on your domestic market can leave you exposed to the changing fortunes of local economies. But here, Nikesh Patel, Head of Investment Strategy at UK Kempen Capital Management, argues that the unique nature of the UK’s capital markets means that pension funds are rightly showing more UK bias in their portfolios.

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2019, 20 March

March to a domestic bias

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Avocados as a matching asset

This article talks about the role of innovative assets in portfolios, in particular as matching assets in Cashflow Driven Investing portfolios (as per the theme of the Professional Pensions Risk & Scheme Funding Forum). We are supportive of CDI as one approach, although it’s certainly not the only one (and not the one most of our clients use).

2020, 07 April

Monthly Commentary

Last month we wrote about the earthquake that ripped through financial markets. It seems however we were a touch premature, February was merely the prequal to March’s far more resounding tectonic shifts.

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Kempen's Commentary

As an asset management company, we closely monitor developments in the financial markets. We also keep an eye on all the news that may affect the value development of investments. It’s logical, therefore, that in these turbulent times we try to make comparisons with past crises: the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2000 and even the economic depression of the 1930s.

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