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The set-up for emerging markets is better than ever, and harks back to the beginning of their decade-long run following the end of the Asian financial crisis. And while Trump has investors running scared, fears about another brushfire trade war are overblown.

The romantic relationship between TenCap founders Jun Bei Liu and Jason Todd has exploded into the press, but Liu tells Investor Strategy News that her personal life has nothing to do with the running of her Alpha Plus fund.

The race to the bottom on low cost, benchmark aware solutions for a post-YFYS world has pretty much been run. But while the perception of value currently sits on price, that might not be where it ends up, according to Fidelity’s Simon Glazier.

Jun Bei Liu and Jason Todd want to shoot the lights out with their newly-launched long-short hedge fund, but they also want to explore new distribution models and client segments as they strike out on their own.

Orbis’ Stuart Place is riding from Melbourne to the Moon and Back to fund a treatment for the “monster of a disease” that his youngest son was born with. The investment industry is rallying behind him.

The flip in the negative correlation between bonds and equities has revealed that the protections investors took for granted were based entirely on assumption. Now they need to diversify their diversification.

Natural catastrophe reinsurance and music royalties have been big winners for PG3, the family office of the founders of Partners Group, which is now bringing its “highly differentiated” uncorrelated strategy to Australian investors.

European private credit manager Park Square Capital is flying into Sydney in search of institutional flows as super funds super-charge their allocations to the asset class.

Betting against acts of God is a great way to make money, but institutional allocations to natural catastrophe reinsurance have stayed relatively static even as some managers are generating double-digit uncorrelated returns.

Value stocks are hit harder in market drawdowns but come out of them faster and harder, according to research from Pzena Investment Management.

Beyond the stocks everybody thinks will be the winners, there’s a better (and cheaper) way to get exposure to some of the biggest themes driving markets, according to Ninety One.

AQR co-founder and CIO Cliff Asness talks to ISN about how social media might be making markets less efficient, the cloak and dagger world of alternative data, and why using machine learning means having to “let go of some things you cherish”.