Funds Management

The newly launched Scarcity Partners wants to help take emerging asset managers to the next level. With stormy weather still forecast for markets, it’s a great time to buy.

Teams from Pzena and Invesco scored highly against the Northern Trust-backed Essentia Analytics’ Behavioural Alpha Benchmark, a system designed to differentiate between luck and true investment nous.

The growing scale of the carbon credit market – and the fact that the next stage of emissions abatement isn’t going to be as simple as the last – means that more institutional attention is warranted, according to Apostle. Just watch out for the volatility.

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.

Howard Marks thinks that markets and the investors that ply them are going to experience massive change in the next decade. If his latest memo is right, credit instruments could come to represent the majority of portfolios.

As international sustainable manager Osmosis looks to expand in Australia, a large university has become one of the first investors in the local vehicle for its ex-fossil fuels strategy.

The world’s second-largest economy can still expect mid-single digit growth for years to come, says APS Asset Management, but the value on offer is the best it’s seen in decades.

Just like the Future Fund, the recipient of its first active equity mandate since 2017 thinks markets are going to look pretty different over the next decade. And asset management businesses themselves are going to have to do things differently to keep up.

Multifamily housing is a “darling asset class” even in a recessionary environment according to Kayne Anderson, and a great way for big institutional investors to achieve impact investment goals.

Systematic fixed income manager BlueCove is looking to build out its local presence and provide an alternative to fundamental investing as macro trends put the asset class back “en vogue”.

China still offers a compelling long-term investment story for investors willing to look past short-term headwinds in property and politics, according to Ninety One.