Benjamin Morton, head of global infrastructure and John Muth, macro strategist at Cohen & Steers have examined performance across various market environments, trying to provide a framework for understanding how infrastructure may fit in an asset allocation strategy and offering insight into the role of macroeconomic research in the investment process.
In a convivial event in central London, the winners of the second Institutional Asset Manager service providers awards were announced last night. The first such event to be held in person, rather than digitally, revealed the service providers with the most votes from our readers.
Some of the world’s largest and best-known institutional investors and asset managers have suffered their first major hit from the escalating crypto crisis as one-time industry poster-child Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a stunningly swift collapse.
Smaller investors will have greater opportunity to flex their shareholder voting muscles as some of the world’s largest asset managers expand proxy voting services.
Fintechs are stepping in to help asset managers comply with stringent European financial regulations designed to eliminate greenwashing.
Research of 25 fund board professionals published by the First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute this October finds some respondents “have not yet have developed an appropriate knowledge and understanding of key sustainable investing regulations, investment approaches, tools and metrics involved”.
A recent report published by IBM Cyber Security Intelligence Indexed found that human errors are the cause of 95 per cent of cyber security breaches globally, the average cost of which could be as high as USD3.33 million.
Returns from systematic, trend-following, and currency-focused macro fund managers have surged again in recent weeks as the escalating volatility in global bond, currency, and equity markets has intensified yet further.
Investment data and research providers Morningstar has published its first Voice of the Asset Owner global survey of institutional asset owners. The survey reveals that a large, influential group of global investors who consider sustainability to be material to the investment process have not yet fully implemented ESG in their portfolios. The global quantitative study, designed by Morningstar Indexes and Morningstar Sustainalytics, included 500 global asset owners from 11 countries representing approximately USD32.7 trillion in assets under management.
With some 35 years of experience in institutional asset management, having been a board member, founder and CEO at some of the biggest names in the industry such as Jupiter, Hermes BPK and Pioneer, Matteo Dante Perruccio is now at the forefront of the crypto asset management world, in his role as President International of Wave Financial (Wave), a SEC regulated digital asset investment manager with more than USD1 billion in AUM.
