John Peterson, an institutional advisor and investor who runs the Peterson Research Institute, has been monitoring like-for-like actual investment options offered by two big super funds, which track the relative performances of active versus indexed strategies. Here is his latest
The big super funds which take part on National Australia’s Bank’s two-yearly survey about currency management have exhibited a significant upgrade in their views and intent with respect to foreign currency. “It’s no longer a binary – passive or active
While quantitative managers, on average, had a rough trot during 2018, including the popular alternative risk premia strategy managers, new work indicates that certain styles will be more resilient in the current market climate, performing better in the event of
In a sample using UK stocks, Axioma, the global investment risk advisory firm, points back to some tried and true fundamental beliefs but adds a couple of new ones to assess the likely future behaviour of factors. The firm is
In what a specialist consultant and Bitcoin trading firm, Goldbaum & Partners, sees as the development of an emerging asset class in ‘digital assets’, there may well be a challenge to the characteristics exhibited over the years by gold. It
comment by Greg Bright There’s a reason that the big APRA-regulated super funds didn’t get hauled over the coals by the banking royal commission. They didn’t have anything to hide. The profit-for-member funds were unscathed compared with banks, quasi banks
The world’s largest fund managers last week shone a spotlight on the difficulties the industry faced as two of them reported their second-quarter earnings results to US brokers and investors. Both BlackRock and State Street suffered further revenue declines in
ASX-listed exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products, such as actively managed listed funds, have become a phenomenon in the past few years, after a slow start. The latest rankings show that smaller organisations are competing well against the world’s largest fund
The European alternative assets market is thriving despite a general air of gloom descending on the increasingly fractured continent, according to a new report from global hedge fund research house Preqin. Mark O’Hare, Preqin founder and chief executive, says in
Investors have long worried about ‘bubbles’ and ‘busts’. But there are also stocks which could be termed ‘anti bubble’. In its latest client note, Research Affiliates, the US-based smart-beta specialist, which opened an office in Melbourne last year, the authors,
John Peterson, an institutional advisor and investor who runs the Peterson Research Institute, has been monitoring like-for-like actual
The big super funds which take part on National Australia’s Bank’s two-yearly survey about currency management have exhibited
While quantitative managers, on average, had a rough trot during 2018, including the popular alternative risk premia strategy
In a sample using UK stocks, Axioma, the global investment risk advisory firm, points back to some tried
In what a specialist consultant and Bitcoin trading firm, Goldbaum & Partners, sees as the development of an
comment by Greg Bright There’s a reason that the big APRA-regulated super funds didn’t get hauled over the
The world’s largest fund managers last week shone a spotlight on the difficulties the industry faced as two
ASX-listed exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products, such as actively managed listed funds, have become a phenomenon in the
The European alternative assets market is thriving despite a general air of gloom descending on the increasingly fractured
Investors have long worried about ‘bubbles’ and ‘busts’. But there are also stocks which could be termed ‘anti
