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Investment Strategy

Next level monetary policy to permeate everything in 2021: Bridgewater

Central Banks have move to a policy regime where fiscal stimulus is an even bigger lever with short-term interest rates in the US likely to will remain on hold at least through to 2023, Bridgewater's Rebecca Patterson has said.

Sarah RundellDecember 16, 2020

Geopolitics

Covid-19 catalyses economic power shift towards Asia

There are huge implications for global investors in the ongoing shift in the balance of economic power from the west to the east which has been further catalysed by Covid-19, the Bridgewater co-chief investment officer has said.

Ben HurleyNovember 19, 2020

Geopolitics

The Biden effect: Dalio on market reaction to US election outcome

A Biden fiscal and economic stimulus reform would involve raising company and capital gains taxes, but it would also involve raising deficits to spend more, a-la Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, an approach that could turn out to be more positive for financial markets, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio points out.

Matthew SmithSeptember 9, 2020

articleHedge funds

Bridgewater sees $41 trillion hole in income

The world's largest hedge fund has built macro programs that identified the global income shortfall as well as the winners and losers from the downturn.

Policy and Regulation

Statewide’s Michalakis: No choice but MMT

Con Michalakis, the head of investments for the $9.4 billion Statewide Super, said a focus on tax and fiscal policies should be central to Canberra’s response to the coronavirus crisis.

Elizabeth FryMay 6, 2020

Investment Strategy

Time to revisit trend-following quants?

The quantitative strategies may be on the cusp of a rebound as the outlook for global economic growth becomes increasingly uncertain.

Sarah JonesOctober 22, 2019

Investment Strategy

Why does Sunsuper invest in hedge funds?

Sunsuper’s hedge fund program has comfortably beaten global equity returns after fees since 2007. To Bruce Tomlinson, portfolio manager for Sunsuper’s $1.6 billion hedge fund program, this is all the justification he needs for a 16 manager hedge fund program, but who in the industry is paying attention? Anecdotes of hedge funds that did not […]

David RowleyAugust 18, 2014

Hedge Funds

Top alternatives managers ranked by AUM

Twenty Australian fund managers feature in Towers Watson’s listing of the top 100 alternative investment managers. In a list dominated by real estate and hedge fund managers, Towers Watson places Macquarie Group as the largest alternatives and the largest infrastructure manager in the world with US$96 billion under management (all figures are US dollar), followed […]

David RowleyJuly 14, 2014

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