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
Instinet Europe has received FCA authorisation as a Payment Institution, allowing the firm to offer a safeguarded cash management and payment service solution to clients looking to purchase investment research through ‘hard dollar’ research payments. Instinet applied for the registration
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
Active boutique investment managers have consistently outperformed both non-boutique peers and indices over the past twenty years, in many cases by a wide margin. That’s according to a new study – The Boutique Premium – by Affiliated Manager Group (AMG),
The CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) has responded to the Fair and Efficient Markets Review (FEMR” report on behalf of its 11,000 members. The CFA UK welcomes the acknowledgement that high standards of professionalism need to be applied
The hedge fund industry took in USD950 million (0.04 per cent of assets) in April, reversing March’s outflow of USD750 million (0.03 per cent of assets), according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research. “Investors have been showing less interest in
