Note BofA Merrill Lynch April Fund Manager Survey finds investors turning to Eurozone stocks from U.S. equities
Investors are turning to Eurozone stocks from U.S. equities, the fifth largest rotation since 1999, despite the coming French election. Allocation to Eurozone equities rises to 15-month highs (net 48% overweight)...
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Note German Wealth Managers Will Lose Market Share to Robo-Advisors over Next Two Years, says Verdict Financial
Over 86% of German wealth managers working with high net worth (HNW) individuals believe that they will lose market share to automated investment services over the next two years, according to financial services research and insight firm Verdict (...)
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Note Financial markets and self-fulfilling prophecies
This phenomenon is equivalent to the change from a brutal economic and financial equilibrium to another, not because the fundamentals of the macroeconomic environment would justify it, but because there was a change for good or bad reasons of market (...)
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Note New EDHEC study of private infrastructure debt shows that defining ’infrastructure’ correctly pays off for investors
A new paper analysing the characteristics of the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute private debt index shows that private infrastructure debt only delivers better risk-adjusted returns than corporate debt when it is narrowly and correctly (...)
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Note TLAC / MREL - eligible senior debt: investors often overlooking the fundamental angle
Concerns about a weakened bank’s senior unsecured debt potentially being bailed in should not taint investment views for banks in decent-to-good credit shape; for financially healthy banks resolution remains a very remote (...)
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Note The impact of commodity prices on Emerging Markets
In the report, Nomura’s researchers highlight five channels through which emerging market economies are affected by lower commodity prices: Merchandise trade, CPI inflation, profit margins, fiscal positions, and GDP growth to assess the winners and losers in the Emerging (...)
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Note World’s largest institutional investors expecting more asset allocation changes over next two years than in the past
Institutional investors worldwide are expecting to make more asset allocation changes in the next one to two years than in 2012 and 2014, according to the new Fidelity® Global Institutional Investor Survey.
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Note Private Debt Industry Assets Approach $600bn
The private debt industry has continued to grow in recent years, and as of the end of H1 2016 reached a record $595bn in assets under management. Launched today, the 2017 Preqin Global Private Debt Report finds that both the level of capital available to fund managers (‘dry (...)
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Note Financial crisis indicators and safe haven assets
How to measure the intensity of the current financial and economic crisis? Regular monitoring of a number of economic and financial indicators helps answering this question and better understanding the materialization of panic behavior and portfolio reallocations in the (...)
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Note Institutional investors warn of increasing correlations, finds Natixis survey
Institutional investors worldwide say it is challenging to find diversification among traditional asset classes, with more than half (54%) saying stocks and bonds are too highly correlated to provide distinctive sources of return, according to a recent survey by Natixis (...)
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Note Towards a behavioral portfolio theory
a major problem facing the asset management industry is the creation of portfolios that generate maximum profitability while being consistent with the risk profile of investors...
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Note State Street Study Reveals Asset Owners’ Increasing Appetite for Illiquid Assets is Driving Interest in Co-Investment
State Street Corporation announced the findings from its latest study, A New Climate for Growth: Adapting Models to Thrive, which reveals asset owners are gaining scale through consolidation and co-investment;
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Note What is Structured Finance ?
If the current crisis (labelled as the subprime crisis) has highlighted the complexity of structured finance along with the necessity of developing more sophisticated risk management tools, it appears that a great deal of misunderstanding still prevails among economic and (...)
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Note Fitch: EU Asset Managers to Rationalise but M&A Spree Unlikely
European asset managers are set to rationalise further, but a widespread M&A spree is unlikely, Fitch Ratings says. Most managers may opt for less intrusive strategies, such as a reduction in the number of funds and cost-cutting, to tackle margin pressure in a fragmented (...)
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Note Reinvention in the Hedge Fund Industry
State Street Corporation released a new Vision Report today, entitled “Hedge Funds: Rebuilding on a New Foundation.” The report examines the re-emergence of the hedge fund industry and the new dynamic between investors, hedge funds, and hedge fund (...)
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