The investment management industry is lagging others in exploiting the vast potential of information technologies, and asset managers are under growing pressure to be more innovative and leverage emerging disruptions occurring in other industries. That’s the conclusion of SEI’s new
How behavioural analysis can serve as a meaningful supplement to the hedge fund due diligence process, potentially exposing key insights about hedge fund managers that might ordinarily remain hidden, is the focus of a new white paper from TeamCo Advisors.
Demand for multi-asset funds continues to grow at a time when investors increasingly realise the importance of diversifying their return streams away from traditional asset classes. In a recent Schroders multi-asset survey*, two-thirds of survey respondents said that they were
The California Alternative Investments Association (CalALTs), whose members include alternative asset managers, investors and service providers in California, has issued a white paper on best practices for hedge fund and private equity operations. Operational due diligence has played a more
In the first of a five-part series, SEI discusses the impact of five disruptive technologies and how they can be applied to the financial industry. The first of these five trends relates to IBM Watson, and the power of cognitive
BMO Global Asset Management has released its latest white paper, titled "Finding a new balance with alternatives,” which considers the evolution of the traditional 60/40 equity/bond balanced portfolio split over the past several decades and concludes that, given the current
Alternative asset management firm Evanston Capital Management has published a whitepaper analysing the return properties of smart beta strategies and how to adjust historical backtest results to inform prospective return assumptions. The white paper outlines foundational characteristics of smart beta
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has published a white paper that analyses the use of benchmarks, such as those utilised by the CBOE Eurekahedge Volatility Indexes, to measure the effectiveness of volatility-based hedge funds in diversified portfolios. In the paper to
DTCC-Euroclear Global Collateral, a joint venture (JV) of Euroclear and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has published a white paper, Implications of Collateral Settlement Fails: An Industry Perspective on Bilateral OTC Derivatives. The paper examines the market implications
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA) Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC) have published a joint paper analysing how and why leverage is used in investment funds in Europe, how firms
