Research for Preqin’s latest Investor Outlook has found that four out of five institutional investors invest in at least one alternative asset class. Private equity, hedge funds and real estate are the most targeted alternative asset classes, with over half
Global investors have shifted their attention from Greece to China amid continued concern of a Chinese recession, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for August. Respondents are scaling back their expectations for economic growth. “Investors are sending
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Fifty three percent of asset managers are not confident that the investment performance figures they report are completely accurate, according to a new survey by SimCorp. A total of 88 asset managers representing USD22.5 trillion in assets under management participated
In an effort to narrow the gap between dynamically managed, multi-asset institutional portfolios and the current set of static, single asset class or balanced retail fund offerings that combine just equities and bonds, asset managers are increasingly likely to bundle
A significant majority of high net worth and institutional investors plan to increase their allocation to alternative funds in 2015, according to a survey conducted by Altegris Advisors. Findings of the Altegris Investor Survey, conducted at the Strategic Investment Conference,
PineBridge Investments has released its annual Investment Outlook Mid-Year Update – “The Global Economy Slowly Inches Upward," which finds that the global economy remains on a recovery trend, but the path continues to be more uneven than expected at the
The T+2 Industry Steering Committee (T+2 ISC) has released a white paper outlining the timeline and activities required to move to a two-day settlement cycle (T+2) in the US by the end of Q3 2017. The T+2 ISC, organised by
Over the last 15 years the fund administration industry has been dominated by the big banking behemoths at one end of the scale and small niche players at the other. Gradually, some of those smaller entities have been consumed. Yet
