Markets could be asked to absorb a lot more debt as central banks lighten their balance sheets. But as governments continue to issue it, nobody knows whether unwinding can be done in an orderly manner.
Minimum drawdowns aren’t meant to be a default, but plenty of members use them that way. Frontier Advisors wants funds to pay them a “retirement wage” instead.
The rise of artificial intelligence is one of the most significant developments since the dawn of the internet, and Citi Securities Services is exploring use cases for it both inside and outside its business in an effort to make the work of asset servicing more efficient.
The CIO Is still considered the shot caller, but the fundamental changes that the super system is experiencing means funds could adopt a more diffuse operational model and power will shift away from the “masters of the universe”.
Fundies are getting with the internal management program but they don’t necessarily like it, according to new data from Frontier Advisors. Especially with a new army of gatekeepers arrayed before them.
Pure play equities managers bore the brunt of market turbulence and lost mandates to super fund consolidation and the Your Future Your Super performance test. But diversified and alternatives managers fare better than most.
Magellan’s ambitious plans to return to the heights it previously occupied are as shaky as ever. There’s hope that the ship might still be righted, but it won’t be David George doing it.
Institutional investors feel ready for anything markets might throw at them, according to a new report from Mercer. But while they still want to manage money themselves, a lot of them don’t know if they’re any good at it.
The question of how much private market assets are really worth has more answers than ever with the growing popularity of evergreen funds. But the drive for more and more frequent valuations has to end somewhere. Right?
First Super inhabits a world of giants, but it’s not considering a merger and it’s not sweating its size. That doesn’t mean it’s not “chronically anxious” about performance and costs.
