Credible asset owner surveys can be a useful source of insight for both investors and the asset managers/advisers that serve them. Their headline findings often tend to focus on expected changes to asset allocation, with researchers seeking to call out trends.
Read more: Top Investor Surveys Part Ways on Asset Allocation Expectations
From the pages of the Financial Times and Reuters to the hallways of investment conferences, noise of an ‘ESG Backlash’ has echoed around the asset management industry through recent months.
Read more: Passive ESG Investing Needs Careful Attention Amid 'Backlash'
An inflationary climate has created new challenges for foundations around the globe: with underlying projects seeking larger disbursements to cover their increased costs, there is a need for higher, stable, predictable income.
Read more: Investor Spotlight: MPS Foundation Seeks Stable Income While Delivering Social Objectives
The 2023-4 period has brought new challenges for institutional investors, affecting both strategy and investment manager selection – the task of identifying the right products and the right partners at the right price. Head of Research, Olivier Cassin, shares his ‘top three’ trends affecting manager selectors in 2024.
Read more: Asset Manager Selectors: Three Themes to Watch in 2024
Although two years have now passed since the Federal Reserve started rapidly hiking interest rates, the likelihood that your hedge fund manager will have a ‘hurdle rate’ for their performance fees has not changed.
Read more: Money for Nothing? Hedge Funds Haven’t Budged on Hurdle Rates (Yet)
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