bfinance Sees Interest in Securitisation Rise Private & Alternative Markets Investors worldwide are increasingly looking to securitised debt strategies as an alternative to absolute return bond funds, new research by bfinance finds. Read More
Private Equity at OPTrust Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance COVID-19 has had a different impact on the various segments in the private equity sector. We speak with OPTrust’s Sandra Bosela about the fund’s experience pre and during the pandemic. Read More
Seeking Value in Derivatives Costs Private & Alternative Markets After the GFC, the funding costs of delta one instruments have been very volatile. BlackRock now thinks it has found the solution to gaining a better understanding of how these costs change over time. Read More
Do PE Investments Still Stack up? Private & Alternative Markets Taking the lessons learned from the GFC, private equity firms have reacted much more quickly to the current turmoil in markets to assess their portfolio companies, LGT Capital Partners’ Ivan Vercoutere says. Read More
NZ Super Looks to Boost Agri-investments Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets New Zealand Super is a well-known timberland investors and the fund is now looking to boost its agricultural investments too, Neil Woods says. Read More
Targeting Negative Equity Correlations Factors, Quant & Systematic, Financial Crisis, Private & Alternative Markets When bonds no longer offer defensiveness, where do you look for portfolio protection? Perhaps it is time to set an explicit negative equity correlation target, Aberdeen Standard Investments says. Read More
Explicit Protection for Super Funds Opinion, Private & Alternative Markets With bond yields at record lows, traditional fixed income defensiveness is reduced and expectations of negative rates of return from bonds at current pricing, has increased the attractiveness of defensive options-based solutions and broader portfolio overlays, Michael Armitage writes. Read More
PSP Expands Agricultural Portfolio Private & Alternative Markets Whether in walnuts and almonds in Australia, coffee in Brazil, or sugar cane in Hawaii, Canadian pension fund PSP Investments is now an agriculture investor to contend with. Read More
Risk Mitigation Helps OPTrust Limit Losses Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Financial Crisis, Private & Alternative Markets Canadian fund OPTrust employs a risk mitigating portfolio to help protect the fund from the worst of the volatility that can be experienced in growth assets, and it has proven quite resilient during the recent turmoil. Read More
