September 02, 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

August 19, 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?

August 08, 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

June 04, 2024

GP Staking – a Private Equity strategy characterised by investments in alternative asset managers and an unusual yield-generative profile – is currently drawing outsized coverage in industry press.

• Private Markets
• Private Equity

Read more: GP Stakes Funds Seek US$30bn With Promise of Private Equity Plus Yield