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Revisiting Global Small CapThe small cap as a source of equity risk premia has been well documented in finance literature. Although small-cap stocks are often perceived as risky relative to their large-cap counterparts, they have other characteristics that may provide an opportunity for portfolio diversification and return enhancement. In particular, moving beyond the universe of large- and mid-cap stocks into the small-cap segment triples the opportunity set in terms of number of stocks available for investors. Also,...
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A Fresh Look at the Strategic Equity Allocation of European Institutional InvestorsMSCI Barra has recently published three research papers that examine the current equity asset allocation practices in the US, UK, and Japan and identify an increasing adoption of a global approach to equity allocation. This paper reviews the current strategic equity allocation policies of European institutional investors. It discusses the evidence that challenges the separation of equity policy portfolio into domestic/international allocations or regional allocations at the strategic level,...
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Quantifying the Cost of Home Bias - A Japan PerspectiveThis Research Insight reviews the evolution of the equity allocation policy of Japanese institutional investors and discusses how globalization has altered the global equity landscape and created the basis for a major rethinking of the investment process of global investors. We present the key rationales for an integrated global equity investment process, and explore potential implementation paths for Japanese institutional investors.
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Globalization of Equity Policy PortfoliosGlobalization has brought about a major rethinking of the equity investment. Thought leaders in the industry are questioning the merit of the existing equity allocation practices and are increasingly looking towards an integrated global equity investment process. The partitioned domestic/non-domestic approach to equity investing may have been built on the grounds of segmented economies, high levels of foreign investment restrictions, and heavily domestically-focused companies but its validity...
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The Effects of Equity Policy Benchmark Decisions in the UKUnprecedented political, economic, and technological developments in the last 20 years have resulted in a high degree of integration across companies, industries, and markets around the world. Institutional equity portfolio construction appears to be lagging behind, with most institutional portfolios still suffering from significant home bias effects. Using data from the UK market, we have shown that adopting a market-cap weighted global policy benchmark instead of a traditional home bias...