Corporate Moves
Sell-Side Firm Wolfe Research Launches Alternative Asset Management Unit
The platform will offer investment opportunities across private markets.
Tag: Alternatives
Alternatives
Family Office Investors Attracted by Flexibility, Tax Advantages of Direct and Co-Investments
Interest in alternative investments remains strong, but family offices are taking a more disciplined approach to the asset class.
Manager Selection
Manager Selection Seen Driving Return Dispersion
Endowments and foundations with similar asset allocations are experiencing a divergence in returns, according to OCIO Analytics.
Alternatives
What LPs Expect From Their Alts Managers
Limited partners report that ‘depth beats noise, and alignment beats hype’ when evaluating new general partners, according to a survey from LP networking community Commonplace.
Research
LPs Remain Under-Allocated to Private Markets, Leaving Many Reviewing Manager Relationships
Institutional investors seek to do more with fewer general partners, according to a survey released this week by Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Alternatives
BlackRock AUM Surges Past $13T, Alts Investments Double
The world’s largest asset manager saw year-over-year assets under management grow 17%, while client assets in alternative investments more than doubled due to recent acquisitions.
Alternatives
Demand for Data Centers, Energy Creates a Gold Rush for Infrastructure Investors
Asset owners and managers are pouring hundreds of billions into the construction of infrastructure for the AI ecosystem, although the horizon is not entirely clear.
Alternatives
Risk Factors Are Rising in Private Credit, Performance Harder to Predict
Private markets are more sensitive to interest rates, inflation and tariffs, while there are questions about how private credit will hold up in a significant correction.
Alternatives
Achmea IM Launches Private Equity Fund Focused on Nutrition, Healthy Living
The $290 million Healthy People & Planet fund was developed for Dutch institutional investors, with the help of Neuberger Berman.
Corporate Moves
BlackRock Aims for $400B in Private Market Fundraising by 2030
The manager wants to expand its alternative investment offerings to wealth managers and aims to be the world’s largest cryptocurrency asset manager.
Manager Selection
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Commits $300M to Real Assets, Alts
The IMRF made commitments with Blue Owl Real Estate, Khosla Ventures, Charlesbank Capital Partners and Great Hill Partners.
Pensions
British DC Pension Schemes Pledge 10% Alts Allocation by 2030
The U.K. Treasury’s Mansion House Accord aims to unlock more than $70 billion in domestic investments.
Alternatives
Japan’s GPIF Urged to Boost Domestic PE, VC Investments.
Lawmakers are calling for financial reform to turn the country into an ‘asset management nation’ and attract more capital from home and abroad.
Alternatives
What Investors Need to Know to Value Private Portfolios
CIO connected with Gregory Brown, a professor of finance at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, regarding his research into valuing illiquid assets.
Corporate Moves
TPG, Temasek to Take Stake in Cliffwater
The duo will join private equity firm TA Associates as investors in the alternative investment adviser.