S&P Global Ratings has published its latest European Structured Finance Outlook, forecasting that European securitisation issuance could grow by more than 5 per cent to EUR120 billion in 2022 after a bumper year in 2021.
Substantive Research, a research discovery and research spend analytics provider for the buyside, has published findings of its latest equity Analyst Mapping study showing that the brain drain in investment research has stabilised.
A tipping point has been reached where the maturity of and regulatory clarity of the cryptocurrency asset have passed the threshold for institutional investors to make significant allocations.
Commodity-focused hedge funds saw “strong performance” in 2021, with many seeing the energy transition towards renewables as a big opportunity and a USD3 billion uplift in investment across the index, according to Bridge Alternatives.
In a new Aeon Investments' survey of pension funds and other institutional investors in Europe and the US, who collectively have around USD436.5 billion in assets under management, nearly one in four (23 per cent) said they have reduced their allocation to traditional fixed income assets over the past 18 months by up to 10 per cent, and half (51 per cent) said they have cut it by between 10 per cent and 15 per cent.
JP Morgan Asset Management has released its fourth annual Global Alternatives Outlook, providing a 12-to-18 month outlook across every key alternative asset class and highlighting the views of the CEOs, CIOs and strategists from the firm's USD200 billion-plus alternatives platform.
Alternative assets fund managers, who are currently holding more than USD13 trillion in assets under management (AUM) — continuing the year-on-year growth since 2010 — are expected to hold USD23.21 trillion by the end of 2026, according to Preqin’s 2022 Global Alternatives Reports.
New hedge fund liquidations fell to a record low in Q3 as total industry capital surpassed the historic USD4 trillion milestone to begin Q4 2021, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report by HFR.
Despite concerns that alternative data could spell the demise of those funds unable to keep up with the diverse skills required to interpret it, new research suggests the opposite scenario is more likely, with funds and alternative data sellers growing together.
An increasing emphasis on gaining alpha from hedge funds is expected to boost the demand for alternative data, according to a new ReaesrchAndMarkets report.