Cat Bonds Are Diversifying, Not Cheap

Catastrophe bonds have delivered three exceptional years. The Swiss Re index returned close to 20% in 2023, about 17% in 2024 and roughly 11% in 2025, and capital has poured into the asset. The returns are what draw attention. The price is ...
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Volatility Targeting Can Synchronise the Selling

A large pool of money bought equities through 2026 for a reason that has little to do with company earnings or the economic outlook. Volatility-target funds add exposure when markets are calm, because their instruction is to hold risk ...
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When Risk Controls Make Diversification Conditional

In March 2026, several of the large multi-manager platforms lost money together as crowded macro positions came under pressure. In July a similar shock, the unwind of crowded technology positions, ran through the same industry but produced ...
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The Hidden Price of Smooth Returns

The private-credit spread is real. Whether the illiquidity premium survives smoothed marks, fees and credit losses is a separate question, and for investors who cannot choose their exit date, the answer is less comfortable. Private-credit ...
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Term Premium Is Back, and It Changes the Price of Leverage

The ten-year Treasury touched about 5.3% at the end of September, its highest in nearly twenty years. The number worth your attention isn't the yield, though. It's what sits inside it. Any long yield splits into two parts. There's the ...
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Every Day, the Market Hires a Counter-Trend Trader

The tape has been calmer than the news. Rates still unsettled, tariffs unresolved, an equity market leaning hard on a handful of AI names, and yet the S&P has spent long stretches grinding higher in tight ranges with the VIX pinned ...
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A Sleeve Is Only as Good as Its Regime

Most sizing decisions use one correlation number per sleeve. It's almost always the wrong one. The figure that ends up in the risk model is a full-sample correlation: the sleeve's co-movement with the rest of the book, measured across its ...
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Your Diversification Is Conditional. Size It That Way.

In July, an equity unwind ran through crowded technology and AI positions. The funds built to withstand exactly that kind of single-factor hit — diversified multi-strategy books — still lost about 2.2% on average. Asia-Pacific equity ...
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ELTIF 2.0 Changed the Wrapper. It Didn't Change the Assets.

A semi-liquid wrapper does not make an illiquid asset liquid. It reschedules the illiquidity. Europe spent 2026 building the case for that sentence — rolling ELTIF 2.0 evergreen funds into wealth portfolios at the same moment the US ...
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The Metric Every Pitch Deck Gets Backwards

A manager triples assets in three years and every IC memo calls it validation. Bigger book, more institutional interest, stronger franchise. Almost nobody in the room asks the only question that actually matters: at what size does this ...
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