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Copper, a silver bullet for a commodities strategy?
The brightest star in the commodities firmament? That changes from day to day in response to shifts in supply and demand. But copper, or ‘red gold’...
Putting a premium on T+0.5 data
In this Quants Corner, we demonstrate that Premium Daily Flows data can be harnessed through quantitative analysis and modeling to deliver strong...
An unusual visitor comes knocking on Japan’s door. Did it RSVP?
After literally decades of being on the losing side despite serial, increasingly massive quantitative easing programs, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has...
Economist Insights
What price peace and interest rate cuts?
The final week of February was marked by the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, key US, European and Japanese equity indexes...
For equity investors, plenty of sunlit uplands
Between Feb. 15 and 22, Japan, Europe and the US saw benchmark equity indexes hit fresh record highs while China’s CSI 300 climbed to a level last...
Focus shifts to US as China goes on holiday
With millions of Chinese workers downing tools for the Lunar New Year holiday and the country’s stock market going into that break on the back of...
Multimedia
Will Japan’s rising tide lift other boats in Asia?
Learn more about the current investor sentiment trends and fund flow data for Asia’s economic heavyweights in this 40-minute webinar.
Weekly fund flows highlights – 26th February 2024
How does investor sentiment towards equity funds this year compare to 2023, and what is the current sentiment towards bond funds? EPFR’s Fund...
Market Insights: Gold Funds
Does appetite for physical gold funds imply interest in the companies actually producing gold? Why did these historically regarded “safe haven”...
Papers
EPFR Papers: China: Should it be in an asset class of its own?
Our latest technical paper discusses China as an asset class from the perspective of the EPFR China Flows and Positioning datasets. China Share...
The global evolution of low-volatility investment in asset management
Asset managers are responding to this demand. According to data from Informa Financial Intelligence’s EPFR, by mid-2Q19 there were 204...
Fund flows as country allocator
In this article, the authors find significant positive returns over a forward one-month holding period for strategies that buy in countries that...