A webinar interview between AsianInvestor and Northern Trust Asset Management’s Wouter Sturkenboom focused on the key financial themes likely to dominate the post-Covid-19 world.
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Building a culture of transparency in your organisation can be a hard sell internally. Northern Trust explains how to set up a four-point action plan to tackle this in the alternatives space.
Western asset owners have been showing a bias towards Asia in their passive global emerging-market allocations, says Wayne Bowers of Northern Trust Global Investments.
Today we unveil the fund houses ranked 51st to 75th by Asia-Pacific AUM in our annual survey. Nine of them were US firms, with Janus Capital posting particularly strong growth.
Asia’s increasingly cash-rich but yield-starved insurance firms are casting an envious eye over US fixed income markets, where income returns are on the rise.
Despite concerns over the availability of private-market investments, institutions are showing more interest in building alternatives expertise, say fund-servicing executives.
The private banking arm of OCBC said it sees merit in investing into the unpopular asset class, as well as factor-based strategies and investments into innovative technology.
The argument for raising inflation targets is that it would give central bankers more room to use interest rate policy, but some investment industry executives have their doubts about the concept.
The state fund is the latest institution to incorporate factor investing into its long-term strategy. CIO Matt Whineray shrugs off concerns some have raised about smart-beta trades getting crowded.