Tag: Alternative investments

They also foresee continued volatility in the stock market, but are turning to active management and alternative strategies to mitigate its risk.

A new retirement plan support program from TaxHACKer seeks to simplify complex tax and pension codes to provide a streamlined solution to clients.

Broadly speaking, Northern Trust’s Capital Market Assumptions Working Group expects continued global economic growth, controlled inflation and accommodative monetary policy.

Institutional investors’ interest in mid-market corporate direct lending is driving large capital flows into a squeezed portion of the market, according to Willis Towers Watson, resulting in downward...

According to Boston Consulting Group, among asset management products, passives were far and away the fastest growing category in 2017, with a record 25% increase in AUM over...

More advisers are turning to alternatives, according to a report from BNY Mellon | Pershing.

Besides providing investment advice, 88% of advisers think they need to guide clients through emotional decisions.

Turning to opportunistic allocations and alternative investments, they expect average returns of 7.2% this year, Natixis found in a survey.

BNY Mellon releases fund focused on income generation, and AI Insight announces new liquid alternative research.

They are turning to alternatives to mitigate market risk.

Already, 18% are incorporating environmental, social and governance funds into their practices.

Exchange-traded funds have benefited once again in 2017 from an increase in investor focus on costs.

Some are looking to build on proprietary investment models.

The median investment management fee charged to retirement plans is 38 basis points, according to the Callan Institute.

Pension funds have benefitted strongly in the last quarter—and the last several years—from strong stock market performance. 

One solution NEPC suggests is Treasury Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities, or STRIPS.

But among the 58% of these investors who do, expectations run high.

Several Americans across generations fear their portfolios aren’t diversified enough to secure a comfortable retirement in the event of a market correction.

An increasingly popular asset class, investors shouldn't pay significantly higher fees for these strategies than market-cap-weighted alternatives, which capture the same performance drivers and can replicate most of...

Wilshire Launches VETS Index; Betterment Sprouts SRI Option for Participants; LPL Opens Mutual-Fund Only Platform; and more.