Partner Insight: Over the past decade much has been made of the uptick in global passive assets under management. Low-cost products such as ETFs have continued to gain market share, forcing fund groups to develop a clear strategy that differentiates their...
Partner Insight: The future of portfolio construction.
Partner Insight: ETFs provide investors with the benefits of cost efficiency, broad diversification and an easier way to control their asset allocation.
Partner Insight: Liquidity is an important feature in the listed infrastructure space and the asset management community has a deep universe of investible opportunities.
PARTNER INSIGHT: Since index funds were opened up to smaller investors in the 1990s, they have proved enduringly popular, with investors embracing the ability to track the market at relatively low cost.
The American economist Hyman Minsky once said that "stability is destabilising". Minsky's 'financial instability hypothesis', which we witnessed between 2007 and 2009, saw the collapse of the US housing and credit boom and, due to the subsequent policy...
Partner Insight: As noted by the OECD in their 2017 Transport Outlook report, an efficient transport infrastructure can improve market accessibility, create employment, promote labour mobility and connect communities.
Partner Insight: The so-called 'infrastructure gap' that exists in both the developed and developing world has been agued by various bodies including the World Economic Forum. Flows into global infrastructure assets hit a record $413bn in 2016, a rise...