Research released by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) reveals that the rapidly changing regulatory environment within Latin America is enabling greater institutional investment in private equity.
Amid negative economic news, institutional investment managers surveyed by Northern Trust solidified a trend toward risk aversion in the second quarter of 2011.
A growing number of UK pension plans have expressed concern over the increasing longevity of plan members, according to MetLife’s Pension Risk Behaviour Index Study.
Japanese corporate pension plans will likely triple their allocations to alternative assets as they seek to boost returns in anticipation of the retirement of their rapidly aging beneficiaries, Credit Suisse has said.
Pacific Investment Management Co. raised the allocation of U.S. Treasuries in its $242.7 billion Total Return Fund from 5% to 8%, indicating a softening of Bill Gross’ aggressively short position on Treasuries.
A new report by BNY Mellon and consultant Strategic Insight -- which analyzes the factors fueling the rapid expansion of the ETF market and how asset managers can profit from the expansion -- predicts that ETF assets will reach $2 trillion by 2015.
The Fed’s Senior Credit Officer Opinion survey shows that banks are offering more favorable credit terms to large investors in an attempt to move back towards traditional bank lending.
According to the latest numbers from Preqin research, institutional investors are considering hedge fund investments that could be worth a combined $195 billion over the next 12 months.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has announced that is searching for an investment vehicle that will focus on domestic emerging managers for the pension fund’s private equity program.
The Commonfund Benchmarks Study of Healthcare Organizations Report revealed that nonprofit healthcare providers averaged 10.9% return on investable assets in FY2010, continuing a positive trend from 2009.
U.S. and European private equity, venture capital, and buyout funds showed strong levels of fund-raising in the first half of 2011, says Dow Jones LP Source.
While pension funds are increasingly diversifying into alternative investments, new data from Towers Watson’s Global Pension Asset Study shows schemes remain skeptical about the fees charged by alternative investment managers.
The European Institutional Asset Management Survey indicates that institutional investment in ETFs decreased by 6% over the past year, but the motivation for the change is not clear-cut.
Private real estate investors have grown increasingly bullish about the future of the market and are ready to embrace more risk, a study by Preqin has shown.