Tag: Alternative investments

T. Rowe Price Expands 401(k) Brokerage Services with Charles Schwab; Wilshire Launches New EVA Index Family; USAA Launches R6 Retirement Share Classes; and more.

In particular, “alternative” investment classes are playing an increasingly important role in the effort to meet necessary portfolio returns, Cerulli finds.

Fee pressure in the DC industry is resulting in tailwinds for the expansion of the “strategic beta” asset class.

Sean Rhoderick, taxable fixed-income investing leader at PNC Capital Advisors, outlines unique opportunities driven by conflicted central bank policies and a persistently abnormal rate environment. 

Society of Actuaries releases new research about economic scenario generators; and Nuveen announces online alternative investments platform.

 

Research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates finds that institutional investors in general no longer limit review of their assets to traditional financial metrics such as revenue, profitability,...

Nearly one-third of asset managers cite the institutional channel as being their most important target for alternative investment expansion.  

Real estate continues to be the top alternatives pick for pension funds.

If the pension plans included in the study, sponsored by NAREIT, had reversed their REIT and hedge fund allocations over the 1998 through 2014 period, at the end...

Investors’ search for low-cost and passively managed funds is a primary reason.

Protecting assets and saving for retirement are also key goals.

Putnam Investments offers new strategies for uncertain markets; American Century Investments announces the public availability of AC Alternatives Long Short Fund; GSAM makes progress on planned merger of...

“It is not the number of securities in a portfolio that determines diversification; it is the number of risk factors.”

This week Northern Trust announced enhancements to services for private equity investment clients, while Franklin Templeton expanded multi-asset solutions capability with new open architecture offering.