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The 60/40 portfolio was built on a simple premise: equities drive long-term returns while bonds provide stability and diversification. But that relationship is no longer as reliable as it once appeared. Inflation, higher interest rates and shifting macroeconomic regimes have shown that correlations can change precisely when investors need...

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Why the Next Wave of ETF Growth Could Be Active

Active management is increasingly finding a home in the ETF wrapper as investors look beyond traditional index-tracking strategies for more targeted sources of alpha....

How CLO ETFs Are Expanding Institutional Access to Alternative Credit

ETFs have become an increasingly versatile tool in institutional portfolios, moving beyond tactical market access and liquidity management to serve as strategic building blocks....

AI Isn’t the Transformation. Your Hedge Fund Operating Model Is.

By Ashish Shrestha, Senior Solutions Consultant at MAIA Technology: Artificial intelligence is moving quickly from experimentation towards implementation across the hedge fund industry. For...

The Lifecycle of a Trade: Where Nordic Managers Win or Lose Their Edge

Placing the trade is the easy part, but it is only as good as everything around it. The edge is rarely won at the...

Diversification is Easy to Buy, Hard to Get: The Liquid Alternatives Test

By Luc Dumontier, CIO Global Asset Management, iM Global Partner: Rarely have global portfolios carried such concentrated exposure to a single bet. US equities...

Unlocking a Third Active Lever

By Steven Braun at Newfound Research and Return Stacked® Portfolio Solutions: Long-only active management traditionally has two levers for generating excess returns. The first...

Active and Alternative ETFs Gain Ground as Market Splits Between Cost and Value

The ETF market is entering a new phase in which growth is increasingly concentrated at opposite ends of the cost spectrum. While ultra-low-cost passive...

Beyond Passive: How Institutional Investors Are Reshaping Europe’s ETF Market

Flows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to show little sign of slowing, but the record asset growth tells only part of the story. Beneath...

Man Group: The Pod-Shop Model Isn’t the Only Way

The rise of the multi-strategy “pod-shop” model has been one of the defining trends in the hedge fund industry over the past decade. Rather...

Tidan Builds Multi-Strategy Platform Around Diversified Alpha Engines

What began as a natural evolution of Tidan Capital’s expanding investment platform has quickly become the asset manager’s flagship offering. As institutional investors increasingly...

Systematic Multi-Strategy as a Portfolio Diversifier

By Fredrik Langenskiöld – Union Bancaire Privée: Multi-strategy funds are those that allocate to more than one alternative strategy or portfolio manager (PM) in...

HSBC’s Three Decades of Building Hedge Fund Portfolios

Hedge fund investing has become increasingly institutionalized and resource-intensive, requiring access to specialized managers alongside deep due diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and ongoing...