Disease and debt now – dispersion later?
Current environment presents opportunities for hedged strategies, such as long/short equity
K2 Advisors
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Global credit markets show signs of complacency
Maintaining flexible, long/short exposures across the credit markets, and limiting duration risk is the best way forward investors in today’s challenging fixed income markets, says Charmaine Chin, managing director and head of credit, relative value and event-driven strategies at K2 Advisors, part of Franklin Templeton Investments, in the article below.
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ANALYSIS: All stars aligned for European equities rally
The fact that the Euro Stoxx 50 index recorded its largest one-day gain since July 2012 on Monday suggests the importance for investors of Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the first round of the French presidential elections can hardly be overestimated.
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Expected performance to VaR, a key ratio for a multi-manager approach
In this video interview, the lead manager of the Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies fund Brooks Ritchey talks about his favourite metric to measure fund managers by, which is Value at Risk (VaR), or rather: expected performance to VaR in a stress test scenario.