ONE of the most successful hedge fund strategies of recent years – insurance-linked securities (ILS) – is latching on to an old idea whose popularity is suddenly soaring. Parametric insurance, where ...

Stock market volatility, as measured by the VIX index for the S&P 500, recently reached the highest level since the Covid-19 pandemic, five years ago. Meanwhile, global government bond yields are ...

Schroders has warned before of the unintentional risks for investors who do not make deliberate, active choices in a world that has become geopolitically and economically much more uncertain. We have ...