Institutional investors say alternative investments are no longer “alternative.” That’s according to the results of a recent survey by JPMorgan Asset Management, which examined the investment strategies and practices of some of the nation’s largest institutional investors. The study confirms that alternative investment strategies are now established components of institutional portfolios – and no longer [...]
Institutional investors remain strongly committed to hedge funds, despite last year’s downturn in performance, according to a recent study by Greenwich Associates and Global Custodian. Watson Wyatt’s Global Alternatives 99 research also shows that alternative assets managed on behalf of pension funds by the world’s 99 largest investment managers grew by 40% to $822 billion [...]
Goldman Sachs beat analysts’ estimates in the second quarter as gains in asset management and prime brokerage help to boost profits. The firm reports that net income dropped 11% percent to $2.09 billion in the three months ended May 30, surpassing expectations. Goldman Sachs’s prime brokerage and asset management divisions share some credit for that. [...]
Despite the subprime meltdown and subsequent volatility in global financial markets, hedge fund assets have posted double digit growth in the past six months. That’s according to the 9th biannual HFMWeek Hedge Fund Administrators Survey. The primary drivers of growth in the hedge fund industry: institutional investors. A recent Investment News report contends that endowments [...]
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