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
A World at the Crossroads Editorial, ESG When we spoke to Nathan Fabian, Chief Responsible Investment Officer of the Principles for Responsible Investment, for the [i3] Podcast, he told us the world is at a crossroads. We could use the current economic malaise to set some climate change-related conditions to the broad stimulus packages and subsidies governments are providing to companies. Or […] Read More
Future Fund Sees Tough Period Ahead Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Financial Crisis, Women in Finance The Future Fund sees a challenging environment ahead as it ends the year flat. The Future Fund expects to see a challenging and volatile environment in the future and believes that the factors that have driven the strong performance in the past might not be there any longer. “We do think that returns are going […] Read More
LGIAsuper on Retirement Products Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Retirement While long-term expected returns are likely to be low and short-term risks remain high, developing retirement products is a tricky exercise, especially with younger members in mind, Troy Rieck, CIO of LGIAsuper, says. 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
Long or Short Volatility? Editorial, Financial Crisis If most diversified, multi-asset portfolios are short volatility, should institutional investors build in an allocation to long-volatility strategies for defensiveness? 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
Frontier Sheds Light on Cluster Analysis Editorial, Factors, Quant & Systematic Cluster analysis is a good example of how machine learning can be practically applied to investment problems, a session at the Frontier Advisors Annual Conference showed. And the applications seem endless. Read More
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