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Asset Manager Selectors: Three Themes to Watch in 2024
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
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Currency Overlays: Active Management is Back
Active currency overlays and ‘currency for alpha’ managers struggled for much of the ‘ZIRP’ era. Now, divergence between major currencies has brought heightened FX risk for investors – but also
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Small Cap Equities: Time for Targeted Exposure?
Following a fundamental shift in macroeconomic conditions, we weigh up the attractions of small cap equities in an era of lower economic growth and elevated inflation and revisit the case for
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FTX Debacle Highlights Key Points for Investor Due Diligence
BlackRock, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Sequoia Capital are among the named investors of FTX — the Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange whose collapse has made headlines across the
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Portfolio Protection and Overlays: Time for a Rethink?
Following the considerable market losses endured in the first half of 2022, investors are taking the opportunity to weigh their own results and reassess resilience. Portfolio diversification,
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Are Your Asset Managers Equipped to Face Today’s Cyber Threats?
The profoundly altered work environment ushered in by COVID-19 has created new avenues for cyber-attacks—including collaboration tools, videoconferencing solutions, devices and cloud-based
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Small Cap: Old Questions, New Answers
Investors are demonstrating appetite for small cap equity strategies late in the market cycle. Yet the motivations for seeking small cap are evolving and the product universe has changed.
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Active Equity Management: A Question of Style?
Recent bfinance reports highlight the extent to which style factors have driven equity returns through the COVID-19 crisis, with value materially underperforming at one end and quality delivering
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How are investors reacting to the 2020 crisis?
The latest edition in bfinance’s biennial Investment Management Fees series. New analysis highlights areas where investors may be able to benefit from pricing trends, with ESG/Impact at the
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Will “Fallen Angels” Reveal Fixed Income’s Saints and Sinners?
With large volumes of BBB credits either undergoing or set to undergo downgrades which knock them off the investment grade plinth, many investment grade bond managers are expecting “fallen
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Dislocation and Distress: Navigating New Opportunities
New research on 130+ opportunistic investment strategies targeting distress and dislocation amid the pandemic.
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Italian Pension Fund Cuts Hidden Costs with Fund Hosting Platform
With investors honing in on the potential for greater operational efficiency, external fund hosting services are becoming increasingly popular, with a diverse range of banks, asset managers and
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Insurers and Investment Risk
The latest edition in bfinance’s biennial Investment Management Fees series. New analysis highlights areas where investors may be able to benefit from pricing trends, with ESG/Impact at the
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What Does “Paying for Alpha” Really Mean?
“Paying alpha fees for beta performance” has become an investor bugbear. This has created a need to differentiate more carefully between outperformance derived from established risk factors and
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Insurer Pioneers New Model for Investment Delegation
Amid the trend towards outsourced investment models such as fiduciary management, outsourced CIO (“OCIO”) and implemented consulting, Coface has developed a different approach – one that lets
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Getting Real on Real Asset Returns
The Teck Resources pension plans have been investing in infrastructure for thirteen years and real estate for
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Five Levers for Reducing Equity Risk
The latest edition in bfinance’s biennial Investment Management Fees series. New analysis highlights areas where investors may be able to benefit from pricing trends, with ESG/Impact at the
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How Alberta Teachers’ is Investing ‘Between the Seams’
The quest for diversification plus returns is not an easy one in today’s investment climate: many strategies that provide low correlation with equities are falling short on performance. The
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How QSuper Halved Risk Without Losing Return
Inspired by risk parity strategies and illiquid-focused endowments, Australia’s second largest superannuation fund is pioneering a radically different approach.
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The Diversification Debate and ARP Results
The see-sawing stock markets of 2018-19 provide an interesting window in which to examine the performance of “diversifying strategies.”
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