Every quarter, our Content Team curates a unique list of the best asset manager salary surveys from around the world, providing our members with information on benchmark salaries for investment management professionals. These fund manager salary surveys cover a wide variety of roles within the asset management industry,…

In this report, CFA Institute seek to identify high-impact applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data in investments and best practice in their implementation by examining specific use cases. For this purpose, CFA Institute conducted interviews with investment industry practitioners around the world and from…

PGIM's latest Megatrends paper, “The Future Means Business: Investment Implications of Transformative New Corporate Models,” draws on the insights of more than two dozen PGIM investment professionals across our private and public fixed income, equity, real estate and alternatives managers – as well as a new proprietary…

Download Robeco's Expected Returns 2020-2024 report (117 pages). This publication includes our five-year investment outlook for all major asset classes. In four special features we also look at some of the tough questions professional investors face today.

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Behavioral finance presented in this book is the second-generation of behavioral finance. The first generation, starting in the early 1980s, largely accepted standard finance’s notion of people’s wants as “rational” wants—restricted to the utilitarian benefits of high returns and low risk. That first generation commonly…

This brief paper by JP Morgan AM strategists gives readers a broad overview of the 2020 edition of the firm's Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions (LTCMAs) and provides a context for how they see important structural themes affecting economic outcomes and asset market returns over a 10- to 15-year investment horizon.

As we head into the new year, thought leaders from across Wellington Management have come together to share their views on a range of key questions affecting global economic and investment markets.

Nuveen’s investment theme for the coming year is 20/20 vision: a clearer path for growth. The “clearer path” part is pretty straightforward: Our investment leaders think the macro fears that dominated most of 2019 have receded. Monetary policy is easier than it was a year ago, and global recession risks seem to have faded…

Studies have shown that pension funds have inherent biases to their domestic markets within their equity allocations. In this paper, FTSE Russell seeks to understand the impact of home bias in the equity allocations of five large pension fund markets—the US, UK, Japan, Canada, and Australia—by examining the extent of their…

Nuveen describes alternative investment opportunities in agriculture, infrastructure, impact investing, and real estate that have arisen as a result of mass urbanization.

Winner of Savvy Investor Awards - Best Real Assets Paper 2019

Invesco's 4th annual Global Factor Investing Study is based upon interviews with over 240 instutional investors and is the largest in-depth analysis of global factor investing.

Cheap stocks have been underperforming for the last 18 months, while expensive stocks are overperforming. In fact, current value performance parallels the Tech Bubble and Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This comes as a surprise to many. We have been living through an extraordinary return environment that has, largely, fallen…

This report by the Thinking Ahead Institute provides detailed analysis of the world's largest pension funds. Assets under management (AUM) of the world’s largest pension funds totalled US$18.0 trillion in 2018, a fall of 0.4%, compared to an increase of 15.1% the previous year. In 2018 the value of the top 20 funds fell by 1…

This is the second year that DWS has sponsored this report by CREATE-Research. Amongst other insights, this year’s survey confirms the on-going movement of passive investment into the mainstream with 66% of survey respondents considering passive index investing as a mature part of their portfolio.

In our last report, we showed that in 2017, insurance companies increased their use of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by a significant amount (37% year-over-year). In 2018, insurance companies continued to increase their use of ETFs and, in spite of a market correction in the Q4 2018, held ETF assets in line with long-term…

Is the combination of real assets in investors’ portfolios meeting their investment objectives? Investors may arbitrarily group real assets into a single category when constructing their portfolios. However, real assets exhibit diverse features and macroeconomic sensitivities that should be carefully assessed during the…

This 20-page document by Page Executive provides important insights into salary and benefits packages for the banking and asset management industries.

Join this 60-minute panel discussion hosted by Reuters Events on the key ESG integration steps investors must take in 2020 to unlock more financial value from mainstream portfolios. Key topics to be addressed include: (i) Utilising data driven environmental, social and governance considerations into core investment decision-…

In this paper, Qontigo strategists look back at 2019 which was a remarkable year for equity benchmarks around the world. Both emerging and developed markets shared in the overperformance, with all components of risk falling for both markets. However, style factors saw mixed results, with few reporting outsized returns for…

The latest J.P.Morgan quarterly 'Guide to the Markets' illustrates a wide array of compelling charts on economic and market-related trends. For other regional versions of the JP Morgan Guide, please click here.

Winner of Savvy Investor Awards - Best Strategy & Economics Paper 2019