Co-president of Apollo’s asset management arm, John Zito, said reforms to European capital markets could unlock trillions of dollars worth of investment opportunities as investors seek alternatives to the US market, and Germany and France are key to leading the region’s growth narrative.
Public markets aren’t functioning as well as they used to, and more and more asset owners are loading up on private assets in a bid to maintain their returns. But private market managers need to realise that their investors want a true partnership, or risk “a washing out”.
Carol Geremia, president of the Boston-headquartered MFS Investment Management, said “long-term washing” has become one of her biggest worries, with everyone claiming to be a long-term investor while failing to align their investment practices with that goal.
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Is a narrowly defined transition likely to fail? The Thinking Ahead Institute’s climate transition working group has been exploring this thesis, writes the Institute’s co-founder Tim Hodgson.
CalSTRS has plenty of cash as it positions for opportunities emerging out of the current economic volatility. In the longer term, the fund’s asset allocation will continue to move away from global equities into private markets as the dust settles and makes way for more US opportunities.
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