Hamid Asseffar, Founder at T50 Capital, writes that emerging markets are often treated as a single asset class.
Sean Peche, Founder and Portfolio Manager at Ranmore Fund Management, writes that sports teams are strongest when all players work together and they’re most vulnerable when only a few strong players determine their success, even the strongest tire and injure.
Adrian Grey, Global Chief Investment Officer, Insight Investment, writes that, for decades, institutional portfolio construction was built around a relatively simple premise.
Alexander Stacy, co-founder and partner at Hudson Hill Capital, writes that over the past year, the largest publicly traded private equity firms experienced stock price declines of as much as 75 per cent, a clear signal that the era of financially engineered returns is over.
Paul Houston, Global Head of FX, CME Group, writes that buy-side firms are trading CME Group’s FX derivatives in record numbers.
Recent yield curve moves show that fixed income no longer rewards simple positioning based on forward guidance but needs judgement too, explains David Roberts, Head of Fixed Income at Nedgroup Investments.
Carl McConnell, Director of Global Real Estate at Mourant Governance Services, writes that the institutional investor landscape in 2026 makes for intriguing viewing: pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance-linked capital are deploying at greater scale, into more operationally complex strategies, with more sophisticated internal governance requirements than ever before.
Josef Sommeregger, Global Head of Insurance, Clearwater Analytics, writes that last month’s decision by the US treasury to double planned buybacks of some longer dated government bonds offered a stark reminder that even the world’s deepest and most liquid debt market cannot take anything for granted.
Helen Adair, Chief Product Office, Taskize, writes that summer is not quite over, and we’re almost one year away from T+1 in Europe.
AI investing is moving beyond the market leaders that defined its first phase. Raul Moreno, co-founder of Andova AI, explains why a more selective and adaptive approach is needed as leadership rotates across the AI supply chain, and why AI itself is becoming an important tool for identifyingwhere value is emerging.
