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Enhancing U.S. Equity Returns Through a More Balanced Market-Cap Allocation ApproachThe Boston Company looks at how institutional investors can seek higher risk-adjusted returns with a broader range of U.S. equity market-cap exposures that includes small and mid-size companies. Authors: Michael Arends, Joseph Duffy
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Target Surplus Strategies for Defined Benefit PlansBNY Mellon Pension Services have developed a Target Surplus Strategy that helps defined benefit plans lock in target funding levels within a specific time frame using a dynamic asset allocation approach. Authors: Peter Austin, Albert Trezza
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Understanding and Responding to the Debt Ceiling DebateMellon Capital's Global Investment Strategist Lowell Bennett discusses the US debt ceiling debate and the market implications of a possible credit downgrade. Author: Lowell Bennett
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The Great Recapitalization: Maturing Mortgage Debt Wave Creates Value OpportunitiesUrdang discusses historic opportunities in the commercial real estate market as about $1.7 trillion in debt is set to mature over the next four years, with property value declines and high delinquency rates in CMBS creating potentially attractive buying opportunities Authors: David Blum, David Rabin
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Diversifying Into Global Bonds and Currencies Amid UncertaintyNewton's Paul Brain discusses how concerns about sovereign debt credit quality might be addressed by diversifying into global bonds and currencies and by avoiding market-cap-based indices overweighting the most heavily indebted issuers. Author: Paul Brain
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Time to Let Go? Greek Debt and the EurozoneNewton's Paul Brain looks at the options remaining in dealing with Greece's sovereign debt problems and argues it might be time to consider letting Greece leave the eurozone. Author: Paul Brain
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Weather Eye for Opportunities in All SeasonsNewton's head of fixed income, Paul Brain, warns that the eurozone remains stormy and unpredictable so that a flexible and unconstrained investment approach in 2012 is likely to find pockets of opportunity across global bond and currency markets. Author: Paul Brain
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Fixed Income Absolute Return Amid Sovereign Debt UncertaintyPaul Brain, Newton's investment leader for fixed income, and Colm McDonagh, head of emerging market fixed income at Insight, discuss the potential benefits of fixed income absolute return approaches against the backdrop of low interest rates, heightened market volatility, and sovereign debt concerns. Authors: Paul Brain, Colum McDonagh
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Global Investing -- A View from the Top: Go Global in Fixed Income and CurrenciesThe rationale for investing in global fixed-income securities used to be founded on the existence of a weak local currency. There are now many more reasons to invest in overseas fixed-income markets. Diversifying away from a domestic market in which the central bank is running the risk of inflation and in which the government is not addressing debt challenges adequately seems a sensible idea. Learn more from Paul Brain of Newton. Author: Paul Brain
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Eurozone Crisis Part Deux: The Big OnePaul Brain, Newton's head of fixed income, analyzes the second stage of the European sovereign debt crisis, arguing that the eurozone is now under significant threat, with a break-up of the single currency union a possible, albeit low-probability, outcome. Author: Paul Brain
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