19 September 2024

In a new macroeconomic environment, cost management requires fresh attention from investors. Inflation and higher-for-longer rates have created upward pressure on expenses in a variety of areas, from technology to team member salaries. External manager fees and other costs are, once again, under scrutiny.

• Fees
• Equity
• Fixed Income
• Private Markets
• Governance

Read more: Investors Should Re-evaluate Fees in the ‘Turbulent Twenties’ 

02 September 2024

A major shift is underway at Alberta Investment Management Corporation. The provincially-owned investment manager has commenced a comprehensive overhaul of systems that will support ‘total portfolio management’ for each of the institution’s clients, clarify performance attribution, enhance understanding of risk exposures and much more.

• Private Markets
• Governance
• Risk
• Investor Spotlight

Read more: Investor Spotlight: AIMCo CIO Goes for ‘Game-changing’ Business Transformation

19 August 2024

The 2022-2024 period has provided new tests for investors’ fixed income and alternative credit portfolios, thanks to the repercussions of heightened interest rates and ever-extending expectations surrounding the pace of prospective cuts.

• Fixed Income
• Private Debt
• Multi Asset

Read more: Fixed Income: Time to Re-evaluate Credit Exposures, Consider CLOs?

08 August 2024

The property market correction of 2023-24 marks the fourth significant dislocation in this asset class since 1970. Each prior instance—the early 1970s, the oversupply of the 1980s/early 1990s and the ‘GFC’—ultimately provided exceptional opportunities for investment in recovering markets. Yet a promising vintage does not guarantee strong performance: periods of ‘recovery’ also present particular pitfalls.

• Private Markets
• Real Estate

Read more: Real Estate Dislocation Presents Opportunities, Risks