October 2016
Note Europe M&A activity picks up pace, while US market shows signs of a flight to quality
The North American market, while still accounting for almost 50% of the global total has decreased 15% since last year, in deal volume terms, on a year-to-date (YTD) basis.
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September 2016
Note Investors Increase Pressure on Hedge Funds to Lower Fees
The latest research from Preqin on hedge fund fees finds that lower recent performance, high-profile redemptions and increased concern from investors on the issue of fees have influenced many hedge fund managers to bring their management and performance charges below the 2 (...)
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September 2016
Note Lyxor research highlights the growing role of Smart Beta in new investment strategies
Lyxor Asset Management today unveils the results of a new wide-ranging study that compares the performance of European domiciled active funds with that of their benchmarks. The research highlights the growing importance of risk factors and other Smart Beta strategies in (...)
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September 2016
Note The world’s 300 largest pension funds – year ended 2015
Total assets of the world’s largest 300 pension funds fell by over 3% in 2015 (compared to growth of over 3% in 2014) to a sum of US$14.8 trillion according to Pensions & Investments and Willis Towers Watson (...)
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July 2016
Note Alternatives managers split on the benefits of ESG, finds Unigestion
Unigestion, the boutique asset manager with scale that focuses on guiding its clients with risk-managed investment solutions, has again surveyed the hedge fund and private equity managers it invests in to track their attitudes to (...)
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July 2016
Note Investors go alternative
The research - which includes data on a diverse range of institutional investor types - shows that pension fund assets represent a third (34%) of the top 100 alternative managers’ assets, followed by wealth managers (19%), insurance companies (10%), sovereign wealth funds (...)
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July 2016
Note Investors and Fund Managers Gauge Brexit Impact
Many fund managers expect performance and investment decisions to be affected, while institutional investors expect to commit less to the UK
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July 2016
Note “There is no listed infrastructure asset class” : New EDHECinfra study finds no diversification benefits from 22 different proxies of listed infrastructure equity
EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra) has released a new paper entitled “Searching for a Listed Infrastructure Asset Class” establishing that listed infrastructure securities cannot be considered a unique asset (...)
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June 2016
Note Robos helping to save the future
Barclays hosted its fifth annual UK Savings Conference on 8th June 2016, and the key takeaway was that Robo-Advice would have a significant role to play in closing the advice gap, but is akin to the rise of internet banking in the early (...)
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June 2016
Note From driverless cars to an improved approach to measuring credit risk in
EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra) has released a new paper entitled “Cash Flow Dynamics of Private Infrastructure Project Debt”, drawn from the EDHEC-NATIXIS Research Chair on private infrastructure debt (...)
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May 2016
Note ‘$1bn Club’ Managers Hold 88% of all Hedge Fund Capital
The 668 firms with at least $1bn in assets under management (AUM) now control $2.75tn out of the total $3.13tn held by the hedge fund industry
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May 2016
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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April 2016
Note Investors increasingly embrace quantitative strategies
Over two thirds of respondents of the Deutsche Bank annual Alternative Investment Survey invest in systematic strategies, including one in every two who plan to add to one or more quantitative sub-strategies in 2016. The largest investment consultants and pension funds are (...)
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April 2016
Note Are markets becoming more unstable?
Readers of financial news may believe that ‘market corrections’, or ‘shocks’, or ‘five-sigma events’ are more common than they used to be. Winton Capital Management look at the historical data for a number of financial markets and find that there is no evidence for increasing (...)
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April 2016
Note New study by EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore shows infrastructure firms have a unique, low volatility, high dividend payout profile
EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra), in partnership with the Long-Term Infrastructure Investors Association (LTIIA) has released a new paper entitled “Revenue and Dividend Payouts in Privately-Held Infrastructure (...)
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