Asset Allocation
Private Credit ‘at a Crossroads’ in 2023
The $2.18 trillion market is ‘flashing warning lights,’ and deal activity is expected to slow, according to a Proskauer report.
Tag: Inflation
Risk
Forget Any Fed Pivot, Says JPM’s Gross
The bond and futures markets believe the central bank’s tightening will about-face—a bad call, the strategist contends.
Risk
Look Out: Treasury Volatility May Not Be Over
Ongoing worries, such as the debt-limit clash, could bring it roaring back, warns Bank of America.
Regulation
Fed Raises Rates as Expected, Stocks Tumble
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell emphasized that the Fed is monitoring the impact of recent banking events but is still committed to reducing inflation to 2%.
Asset Allocation
Korean National Pension Fund Loses More Than 8% in 2022
Despite downturn, the $684.5 billion fund’s losses were offset by an increased allocation to alts.
Research
U.S. Asset Managers Fear Federal Reserve Rate Hikes Will Cause Recession
Asset managers are concerned that higher rates will spark a liquidity crisis and 27% fear that continued rate hikes will cause significant equity market losses, CoreData Research finds.
Research
Slumping Leveraged Loans Are Expected to Rebound Late in 2023
M&A activity should come back in the second half, and so should this favorite borrowing instrument, according to JPM and Morgan Stanley.
Pensions
PIMCO Investment Managers Tell SCERA They Expect Debt to Bounce Back in 2023
The $3.2 billion Sonoma County Employees’ Retirement System’s investment committee heard a discussion about the current state of fixed income.
Research
Ash Williams: Passive Investing’s Use Is an ‘Illusion’ That’s Now Dispelled
It’s a creature of another time, and active management is needed for today’s challenges, the investment legend argues.
Risk
What Happens After That Soft Landing? BCA: Nothing Good.
Maintaining a position just short of a recession is almost impossible to do, the research shop says.
Newsmakers
How Bob Doll Makes His Rather Prescient 10 Annual Predictions
The Wall Street heavyweight’s forecasts for each coming year have done well over three decades, coupling conventional wisdom with unorthodox guesses.
Asset Allocation
Remember When We Thought it was Transitory?
Principal’s Jablonski sketches out why rising interest rates are investors’ friends in 2023.
Research
Howard Marks: A ‘Sea Change’ Has Come to Investing
Risk aversion and higher rates are now embedded features, which has big implications, the celebrated investor says.
Research
Asset Owners and Consultants Say They Gotta Change Strategies, Pronto
Inflation and climate change spook them, so they’re scrambling to find smarter ways to adjust, a Nuveen survey finds
Asset Allocation
T. Rowe: Conventional Wisdom on ’23 Market Is a Crock
Growth stocks rebound, banks are vulnerable, consumer staples rule—all those shibboleths are so last year, the firm’s CIO, John Linehan, says.