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The ICMA advices countries to use clauses in bonds that allow them to restructure their debt if a majority of investors agrees to this.
The 11th Global Alternatives Survey from Tower Waters was published. According to the study, assets under management in alternative assets grew by 6% to 5.7 trillion USD in 2013.
German insurance companies said that they may back a government call to invest about 7 billion Euro to cover the financing of German infrastructure investments in bridges and roads.
iShares is going to close 18 ETFs due to a lack of investor interest. Pimco is going to do the same and will liquidate four funds.
According to Reuters, the twenty largest industrial and emerging economies are planning to allow regulators to control fund manager’s operations in crisis situations.
According to an regulatory statement, the UBS hedge fund O’Connor LLC was selling nearly all of it’s american real estate investment trusts in the last quarter.
The improving conditions for soy bean growing and the upcoming record harvest in the US, worlds largest producer, made money managers go short in soy beans for five weeks in a row. This is the longest sequence since 2006.
During this year emerging markets and frontier markets are performing well due to the following reasons.
Germany’s economic growth fell in the second quarter of this year by 0.2% compared to the previous quarter. Experts say that this is the effect of geopolitical effects in the short term but also upcoming structural problems in the long term.
According to Agecroft Partners, inflows in hedge funds after the financial crisis in 2007/2008 concentrate at a small number of different funds with a high reputation.
According to a survey of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, geopolitical risks is the number one concern for about half of all investors.
According to a study from McKinsey & Co published last week, hedge funds, private equity firms and other alternative investments will receive up to 40% of the revenues made in the asset management industry by 2020.
Infrastructure investments are popular due to many advantages as attractive returns, security against inflation, reliable cash flows and low correlation with other asset classes but increasing interest rates are a risk for their returns.
Five of Switzerland’s largest pension funds are behind a new infrastructure investment platform, structured as an evergreen, which had its first closing at CHF 300m (€ 247m) with a substantially higher target volume.
Convoy Investment LLC, a global macro hedge fund, is going to apply another fee structure to their fund and differ from the established performance fee.
Commodity ETFs (exchange traded funds) are an easy way to invest in commodities without physically purchasing the underlying.
Emerging markets are more afraid of interest rate policy changes by the FED than of any other thread due to possible pressure on their currencies and debt.
Investors divest from futures and invest that money into ETFs in order to save money and achieve comparable returns.
Some experts say that the M&A market is overstretched. Due to the high share prices and the low interest rate, a lot of expensive M&A deals are pursued that do not enhance corporate growth.
While banks face issues as scandals, low margins and a sharp regulatory climate, most stop or sell their physical commodity trading departments.