When Will Interest Rates Fall and by How Much?
UBS analysts think the Fed will need 6 months or so to realize it can ease, gradually slicing the central bank’s benchmark by a modest amount, up to 0.75 points.
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Norges Bank, AP7 Named Co-Lead Plaintiffs in Silicon Valley Bank Lawsuit
The institutional investors lost a combined total of nearly $162 million from investments in the bank’s holding company, SVB Financial Group.
SEC Accuses Kraken of Operating Unregistered Securities Exchange
The charge will only stick if the court agrees with the SEC that the tokens involved are, indeed, securities.
Nvidia Results Romp, So How Come Its Stock Slipped?
Market-wide forces are impacting the high-flying shares, which have led the S&P 500 all year.
Pension Risk Transfers Poised for 2nd Strongest Year Ever
AT&T’s May transaction and other large PRTs push up the tally, Legal & General reports.
Weak Companies’ Low-Yielding Bonds Set to Hit Maturity Wall
Risk grows as a raft of junk-rated issuers, paying modest interest, must refinance their debt at much higher rates.
Navigating ESG in an Evolving Regulatory Environment
Speakers at CIO's Navigating ESG Livestream discussed what investors should expect from company reporting on ESG-related issues.
WeWork’s Impact Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ for Office Space
The market already was in poor shape before the Chapter 11 filing, strategists say. Now this.
Why Oil Stocks, Slipping Now, Have a Bright Future
The industry will be needed to bridge the long transition to net-zero from now to 2050, JPM says.
EDHEC Institute Warns UK Pensions Against Investing in Infrastructure
Report says ‘remarkably poor and unreliable’ data on the asset class is a stumbling block for defined benefit plans.
Will Market Volatility Continue in 2024 and Beyond?
Class of 2023 Knowledge Brokers anticipate what successful investing in turbulent times will look like.
Tepid Turnaround Seen for Alts, Once Investors’ Darlings
AUM growth decelerates and fundraising softens, Preqin reports.
At Fidelity, AI Provides Extra Eyes to Spot Red Flags
The artificial intelligence application Saifr uses natural language processing to help portfolio managers, sales and other staff review public-facing communication.
Why a Slowdown Might Not Be Too Bad, CIOs Say
At a Franklin Templeton webinar, finance chiefs describe corporate America’s strengths.
CFA Institute Produces Plan to Gauge OCIO Performance
The framework, now out for comment, calls for extending GIPS to outsourced investment managers, with rules for things like fee disclosures and benchmarking.