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
When Chickens Come Home to Roost Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets Chicken farms and almond plantations are perhaps not the first things that come to mind when thinking about investments. But these agricultural investments have proven to be quite a find for First State Super. Read More
Eyeing Distressed Investments Financial Crisis, Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative Markets Asset consultant bfinance surveys distressed and opportunistic strategies and finds frantic capital raising activity. But not all strategies are equal, as the pandemic means a lack of track records and increased competition in some sectors. Read More
