Tag: Alternative investments

Sean Rhoderick, taxable fixed-income investing leader at PNC Capital Advisors, outlines unique opportunities driven by conflicted central bank policies and a persistently abnormal rate environment. 

Society of Actuaries releases new research about economic scenario generators; and Nuveen announces online alternative investments platform.

 

Research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates finds that institutional investors in general no longer limit review of their assets to traditional financial metrics such as revenue, profitability,...

Nearly one-third of asset managers cite the institutional channel as being their most important target for alternative investment expansion.  

Real estate continues to be the top alternatives pick for pension funds.

If the pension plans included in the study, sponsored by NAREIT, had reversed their REIT and hedge fund allocations over the 1998 through 2014 period, at the end...

Investors’ search for low-cost and passively managed funds is a primary reason.

Protecting assets and saving for retirement are also key goals.

Putnam Investments offers new strategies for uncertain markets; American Century Investments announces the public availability of AC Alternatives Long Short Fund; GSAM makes progress on planned merger of...

“It is not the number of securities in a portfolio that determines diversification; it is the number of risk factors.”

This week Northern Trust announced enhancements to services for private equity investment clients, while Franklin Templeton expanded multi-asset solutions capability with new open architecture offering. 

Managing director of AB’s alternatives and multi-asset arm offers helpful reminders amid rocky markets—most notably, that volatility is normal and actually a key source of opportunity.

Differing from the narrative of some providers, one researcher suggests the use of alternative investments may not expand that much further in the DC space. 

The index was established as a benchmarking tool for investors in globally-diversified, multi-asset portfolios that include alternative investments, and is the basis for a collective trust used in...