Water
The rising value of water is a growing investment theme. How are climate, technology, geopolitical and other risks affecting investors?
Special Coverage
Asset Allocation
Water Utility Equities Could Be Strong Performers Amid Volatile Market
Because the need for clean water is both universal and not close to being solved, publicly traded water utilities can be excellent low-risk investments.
Saltwater to Freshwater: A Panacea That Travels Rough Seas
Desalination, a seeming godsend for parched areas, also could be profitable for investors. But the process is not always easy to pull off.
Asset Allocation
How Water Scarcity Is Shifting the Investment Landscape
Understanding the cost of water, like other business inputs, is ‘critical’ to the investment process across different sectors and asset classes.
Research
Water-Related Risks and Challenges
From the WRI Aqueduct 4.0 review of updated decision-relevant global water risk indicators.
Past Special Coverage
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI tools are changing the role of technology in institutional investing, making some allocators and managers rethink how to best use it and to capture investment opportunities.
How Investors Are Utilizing Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI tools show promise but, for now, are mostly used for clerical tasks.
Asset Allocation
How to Invest in the Future of Artificial Intelligence
What’s next after chatbots? Practical, perhaps profitable, uses, such as in health care, power generation and manufacturing.
Regulation
Regulating the Robots
The current SEC proposal is seen as overreaching, but industry watchers see benefits if changes are made.
Opinion
AI Will Revolutionize Private Equity Investing
Artificial intelligence will be able to convert its efficiency advantage over human investors into markedly better returns, per a Columbia Business professor with experience in the business of AI investing.
Energy Transition
A review of how are institutional investors are reshaping their portfolios to take advantage of the opportunities in and be prepared for the risks posed by the move to a carbon-aware economy.
Asset Allocation
How Investment Management Is Helping Increase Sustainability
AdventHealth CIO Rob Roy is leading a team working to make the system more flexible and better prepared for climate-related stresses.
Asset Allocation
What Science Tells Us About Investing in the Energy Transition
CIO connected with Scott Tinker, a noted geologist at the University of Texas, about what areas of the energy transition are ripe for investment.
Opinion
Commentary: Energy Transition Wave to Dominate Investment Landscape
A huge wave of change will create substantial risk and opportunity for institutional investors across geographies, sectors and asset classes.
How to Navigate Energy Transition Risks
The amount of investment needed for this enormous task is $4 trillion yearly, but the effort is gearing up now.
Asset Allocation
Finding Investment Opportunities in the Energy Transition
What institutional investors are doing to get the most out of the world economy’s move away from carbon-based fuels.
Asset Allocation
Energy Transition and the Global South
The World Economic Forum seeks to accelerate clean energy investment and opportunities in emerging markets; sees need for up to $2.8 trillion by 2030s.
Investment Returns and Monetary Policy
An examination of expectations for 2024 investment returns and the government policies that will affect them this year.
Market Drivers in 2024: The Magnificent Seven? Something Else?
The mega-cap tech giants appear invincible. But things always change in the market.
Market Moves
What Will Challenge Investment Returns in 2024?
There are factors to watch that could derail or boost the markets this year.
Market Moves
What’s Expected in 2024?
Wall Street's 2024 U.S. forecasts.
Asset Allocation
Goldman: US Is the Place to Invest in 2024
The nation’s stocks out-run everyone else’s, and should continue to, per the firm’s outlook.
Risk
Yield Curve Will Right Itself, Finally, but Not Until Year-End, Experts Say
Next question: What happened to the inverted arc’s role as a recession portent?
Risk
Investors’ Interest Rate Expectations Unrealistic, per NEPC
After many years of low borrowing costs, too many people have the delusion that these will return, NEPC warns.
Private Markets
A review of the alternative investments playing a significant role in institutional portfolios and what benefits and risks they present.
Alternatives
Fund Managers Target Overlooked ‘Middle Ground’ for Hedge Funds
Traditional pod shops may not be the only strategy for empowering fund managers.
Why Private Credit Is So Darn Popular
Yields are high, and well-fixed institutions back them, but what happens in a recession?
Asset Allocation
Hedge Fund Industry Maturing, Adapting as Investors Rebalance
Rising rates and volatility favor active management, while high cash rates put pressure on fees as year-end evaluations are made.
Asset Allocation
What Is the Future of the 60/40 Portfolio?
Already a trope in transition, the traditional portfolio had a rough 2022, so modern-day allocators must evaluate all potential paths forward.