Companies ranked in the bottom 50 per cent of ESG performance are significantly more likely to attract activists’ attention, according to the findings of Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M) latest analysis and predictor of shareholder activism in Europe, the A&M Activist
More and more professional investment allocators are directly asking about sexual harassment during the fund manager due diligence process, while a rising number of allocators – nearly 1-in-10 – upon identifying sexual harassment issues would still invest with a given
Geopolitical risks & trade tensions rank as the greatest threat to global financial stability in 2020, according to a new survey published by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). This is the first time in the survey’s seven-year history
A new publication from ERI Scientific Beta, the index arm of EDHEC Risk Institute, entitled “Robustness of Smart Beta Strategies,” reviews the importance of robustness for smart beta strategies. The paper also explains various methods by which smart beta strategies
Fitch Ratings' 2015 rating and sector outlooks for investment managers are stable despite increasing competition between traditional and alternative investment managers to meet retail investors' growing appetite for alternative investments and secondary risks associated with a potential interest rate rise.
A majority of PENSCO clients would invest more in non-traded, alternative assets if they had a better understanding of the alternatives available (71 per cent) and more accessibility to non-traded alternatives (70 per cent). The finding is based on a
US futures exchange volumes increased sharply in September 2014, bringing year-to-date volume to 2.3 billion contracts, according to TABB Group. However, the year-to-date total is 2.5 per cent lower than the same period a year earlier. During Q3 2014,
The number of alternative and multi-asset fund launches have increased 15 per cent since 2010, according to research from Cerulli Associates. "The market crisis was highly disruptive, temporarily halting new product introductions as budgets were slashed, but in the longer
Asia Pacific has always been a key market for global alternative fund managers but as the latest research published by Preqin shows, institutional investors in the region are becoming an increasingly important source of capital allocation; both to hedge funds
Hedge fund compensation increased in 2014 as total capital invested in the hedge fund industry again reached new records, according to the 2015 Glocap Hedge Fund Compensation Report. With the industry reaching a new high of USD2.82 trillion in assets
