Sort By

  • Newest

  • Newest

  • Oldest

  • Author Name

  • Author Name

  • David Chaplin

  • Drew Meredith

  • Giselle Roux

  • Greg Bright

  • James Dunn

  • Lachlan Maddock

Another big manager climbs aboard the alts express

The $1.7 trillion global investment manager PGIM has brought together its alternatives units in a sign of their growing importance to its biggest clients.

Staff Writer | 13th Sep 2023 | More
Alts in, 60/40 out after the ‘Great Moderation’: BlackRock

A BlackRock survey of institutional investors has found the growing appetite for private markets is dampened only by liquidity concerns. Meanwhile, its strategists warn that the efficacy of the classic 60/40 portfolio is waning.

Lachlan Maddock | 21st Apr 2023 | More
‘The field is being sanitised’: Why boutique managers have the upper hand on ESG

Political polarization in the United States and new regulations affecting the labelling of products and funds means boutique ESG managers are back in the spotlight.

Lachlan Maddock | 10th Mar 2023 | More
    • Investors are still wearing rose-coloured glasses

    The market view is still too optimistic, according to the BlackRock Investment Institute, and investors aren’t truly considering the risk of a recession.

    Staff Writer | 25th Jan 2023 | More
    The era of dip-buying is at an end

    The end of supportive monetary policy is bringing wild market volatility with it, and the old impulse to “buy the dip” will no longer be rewarded.
    Lachlan Maddock | 13th Jul 2022 | More
    Bull run no boon for innovation: BCG

    The rivers of gold that have flowed over the last decade have not flowed to more innovative products, according to Boston Consulting Group.
    Lachlan Maddock | 1st Jun 2022 | More
    • BlackRock backtracks on proxy support

    BlackRock has flagged an ESG-lite agenda ahead of the 2022 corporate proxy-voting season.
    David Chaplin | 13th May 2022 | More
    Why greenwashing stains (and won’t wash out)

    Regulators won’t be able to scrub out environmental, social and governance (ESG) ‘greenwashing’ in the investment industry, according to influential US finance academic, Aswath Damodaran. In a blistering attack on the ESG investing sector last month, Damodaran says greenwashing – or falsely marketing funds as sustainable (or the like) – is an indelible feature of…
    David Chaplin | 8th Apr 2022 | More
    • It’s the end of the world (as we know it)

    Fifteen years ago, Thomas Friedman said that globalisation had finally made the world “flat” and that a golden age of prosperity was upon us. A month ago, that stopped being true. Love him or loathe him (and many lean towards the latter), Thomas Friedman occasionally hits the nail on the head. In his 2005 book…
    Lachlan Maddock | 25th Mar 2022 | More
    ‘You want to be on the right side of it’: State Street prepares for a post-YFYS world

    As merger activity continues apace, State Street – armed with its “unique” front-to-back solution – intends to take a dominant position as custodian of choice for the biggest end of town. The super industry and its custodians are now exiting a period of relative stability. The number of funds has more than halved in the…
    Lachlan Maddock | 11th Mar 2022 | More
    1 2 3