Insights

Live research from the Relevance archive.

Original analysis on credit, allocation, and the structures behind institutional portfolios.

Research Note

When the Illiquidity Premium Shrinks Private vs Public Credit

What Tighter Spreads and Rising Risks Reveal About Today’s Trade-off Private credit’s remarkable growth phase appears to be stabilizing.

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Research Note

The Secret to Beating your Portfolio Benchmark

The Secret to Beating your Portfolio Benchmark Much has been written about the challenges active managers face in outperforming market

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Research Note

Improving Active Investment Performance

The beginning of the year is a natural time to assess investment success. Some strategies will have done better than

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Research Note

Are More Options Better? For Skilled Alternative Managers, Yes.

By now many, if not all professional Canadian investors have heard of AT1 bonds or Limited Recourse Capital Notes, as

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Are you Buying Fair Assets at Wonderful Prices or Wonderful Assets at a Fair Price? A fixed income perspective.

The world of investing would be a wonderful place if we could do the same thing year in and year

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Alternative Manager Selection – What to look for?

The case for and use of alternatives is well established and allocations are rising. Many factors are contributing to the

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Research Note

The Canadian Mortgage-Backed Risk Myth

Many Canadians are no stranger to debt. Canadian debt levels are among the highest in the world with household debt

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Research Note

Wear a Mask if you Invest in Crowded Spaces

Do markets look expensive or attractive? How much risk should one take and where? A recent piece, Coming into Focus,

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Rise of the Zombies….Are they Creeping into Portfolios?

Zombie companies are companies that are no longer viable businesses but have been able to survive on the abundance of

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Quarterly Research

The thinking behind the allocations.

Quarterly research notes for institutional allocators.