By Bjarne Graven Larsen: For decades during the great moderation, the 60/40 portfolio was the institutional investor's Swiss army knife. Equities grew wealth; bonds...
Infrastructure has traditionally been viewed as one of the more defensive corners of private markets, characterized by essential services, stable cash flows, and hard-asset...
Private markets have expanded far beyond traditional private equity, private credit, and infrastructure investing. Among the more specialized corners of the alternatives universe sits...
Private credit managers with exposure to software companies recently faced investor withdrawals as concerns mounted over how artificial intelligence could disrupt parts of the...
Every day, households borrow money to buy homes, finance cars, pay for education, or fund everyday consumption. These mortgages, auto loans, consumer loans, and...
As businesses stay private for longer, an increasing share of value creation now happens away from public exchanges, forcing investors to rethink where they...
By Alexandra Voss, CFA at SEB: Private markets are no longer in retreat, but the rebound is selective and unevenly distributed. Returns were positive...
While parts of the private equity industry have faced a challenging dealmaking environment in recent years, Nordic mid-market buyout manager Summa Equity has navigated...
By Andrew Beer, Co-Founder of DBi: After a decade of studying CTAs, we have drawn three conclusions about the nature of their alpha generation. At the...
By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk & Portfolio Management AB: For many investors, manager selection ultimately comes down to intuition, whether...
By Liam Hynes, PhD – S&P Global Market Intelligence: Systematic investing has always been a story of expanding information sets. Prices, then fundamentals, then...
At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous. Many managers trade the same liquid futures markets and rely on systematic, trendfollowing models that...
By Thomas Babbedge at GreshamQuant: I first went to the Exeter Racecourse when I was thirteen years old with the girl next-door. I don't remember where...
By Fredrik Langenskiöld – Union Bancaire Privée: Multi-strategy funds are those that allocate to more than one alternative strategy or portfolio manager (PM) in...
Institutional investors are now seriously changing how hedge funds operate April 4 (Reuters): Proposed laws giving U.S. pension plans more freedom to put money...
According to the associate director of the SEC’s investment division, hedge fund managers are free to comment on their funds’ performances, provided that they...
The process of finding a new manager for FSA-sanctioned Kullberg & Spiik’s two hedge funds is proving to take longer than first anticipated. According...
Some university endowments have gone crazy over hedge funds, with allocations reaching a staggering 82% April 4 (InstitutionalInvestor): Some university endowments have gone crazy...