Private credit investors ready for next cycle
While many allocations struggle in a downturn, it presents opportunities in private credit some of which are already starting to appear.
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Bridgewater advises downside protection as turning point appears
Investors should shape strategies that protect against the downside, said Jeff Gardner, senior portfolio strategist, Bridgewater Associates. Speaking at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at the Chicago Booth School of Business, he said that investors should prioritise protecting against losses in the current environment: increasing returns can be additive to long-term wealth, but missing the big
Solutions to Europe’s energy crisis
Chris Hulatt, founder, Octopus Group, and Olivier Rousseau, executive director of France’s FRR, reflect on the European energy crisis. Speaking at FIS Chicago, they warn of consumer pain ahead, urging governments to do more to build renewable energy infrastructure. Cripplingly high energy costs in the UK where the average annual household bill is forecast to
The future of globalisation: Friend shoring and telemigration
FIS delegates heard how globalisation will give way to new trends in nearshoring or friend shoring, telemigration, and cause companies to diversify their supply chain.
Culture, purpose and empowerment pay in the battle for talent
As the battle for talent intensifies, one CIO reflects on the best way to recruit and retain staff; elsewhere investments in dollars and real assets provide ballast in a challenging investment environment.
New asset owner template set to strengthen ESG integration by managers
Two veterans of the asset owner community, Theresa Whitmarsh, former executive director of the Washington State Investment Board and Hiro Mizuno, former CIO of the Japan Government Pension Investment Fund, are behind a new template that applies legal language to how asset managers integrate ESG
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