The Ultimate Diversifier: What Real Assets Are Gaining in Allocator Portfolios
Infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels, plus farmland and other natural resources, is winning new favor.
Infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels, plus farmland and other natural resources, is winning new favor.
This battered asset class should benefit from a host of new developments—such as a weaker dollar.
Many institutions, wary of the asset class’s notorious volatility, keep their exposure low despite raw material price climbs.
His hedge fund firm, Citadel, has thrived for the past 30 years, thanks to his data-driven zeal—and an early start. Way early.
Institutional investors mostly want to direct their non-market-correlated strategies themselves, but acceptance of these retail-oriented alternatives is inching up.
Why big allocators on this side of the Atlantic, like CalSTRS, CPPIB, and OMERS, are seeding Old World newbie companies.
The cash flow is solid, except for occasional problems like pandemic-reduced traffic volumes.
And where the Grave Dancer is branching out into other things instead, juggling businesses like logistics, health care, and energy.
CPPIB and CalSTRS are among the many institutions that have put money into the expanding Asian economic powers.
With his deals seeing double-digit declines, the venture capital star encourages fellow investors not to be afraid of making changes.
A surging China elbows others, the deficit-burdened US struggles, and Brexit is in the pits.
A suffering economy, a generous Washington, the homebound blues—all have played a role in scrambling the field over the past 12 months.
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The digital asset is gaining more acceptance among institutional investors.
There are three reasons why, after long dwelling at subterranean levels, the cost of money will eventually poke its head up.