global financial crisis

Learn from the data and don’t fear change

Signals and noise can dominate the minds of investors but relying on the uncompromising clarity of statistics may provide a complex but effective path according to Fort L.P.'s Alan Marantz.

Jessica SierMay 6, 2021

Blackstone remains ‘high conviction’ on travel and entertainment assets

While hospitality assets that were convention oriented will probably take longer to recover back to pre-COVID levels, these activities will come back and this mega trend will continue, Blackstone's Kathleen McCarthy says.

Jessica SierMarch 3, 2021

Real Estate

Public-private inefficiencies driving real estate opportunities: AXA

It's the inefficiency inherent in real estate that provides opportunities for investors to take advantage of illiquidity and price discovery at certain inflection points, AXA's Justin Curlow explains.

Jessica SierMarch 3, 2021

Absolute Returns Conference Digital 2020

Relative value strategies in fixed income: PGIM’s Schiller on seeking catalysts

The investment team is using strategies in liquid fixed income markets to exploit valuation discrepancies between fixed income securities, like yield curve arbitrage, swap spread arbitrage, mortgage arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, and credit arbitrage.

Jessica SierSeptember 7, 2020

Fixed Income and Credit Forum

‘Maligned’ asset-backed securities ‘a good asset class’

The GFC gave asset-backed securities a bad reputation. But, with a disciplined approach, there is still a role for these products.

Amanda WhiteOctober 24, 2017

Featured Homepage Posts

Private credit the unknown frontier for fixed income markets

Private credit is exciting but investors must beware of risks in this late stage of an uncommon credit cycle, Nick Bishop writes.

Nick BishopJuly 4, 2017

Hedge Funds

Risk of crowded trades calculated by new research

Crowding is the single biggest mispriced risk for investors over a one-to-two year time horizon, according to Sasho Bogoevski, managing director, multi-asset solutions, AB. He told delegates of the Fiduciary Investors Symposium how his firm’s research had identified crowding around stocks common in low volatility portfolios as a particular concern and how several of AB’s […]

David RowleyMay 14, 2015

Unintentional

From politics to post-retirement

Former Victorian premier and federal member of parliament, John Brumby likes women. Since his appointment as independent chair of the MTAA Super Trustee Board in April 2011, he has overseen the appointment of the fund’s first female chief executive and independent directors. Former AvSuper chief executive Leeanne Turner replaced the fund’s longstanding leader, Michael Delaney, […]

Leng YeowOctober 28, 2013

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