ESG Impacting Private Equity Exits
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly impacting exit opportunities for private equity firms. But keeping up...
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PWC
- Feb 6
Metaverse Emerging As Trend
The metaverse looks set to emerge as a fast-growing trend in the European fund sector as virtual reality and the next iteration of the...
PWC
- Feb 6
ETF Inflows Drop
The global ETF industry gathered US$69.37 billion in net inflows during December, bringing year-to-date net inflows to US$856.16 billion,...
PWC
- Jan 30
Officers Should Own Common Shares
A Canadian Coalition for Good Governance review is recommending that boards of directors should encourage greater common share ownership...
PWC
- Jan 30
Decreased Rates Provide Tailwind For Fixed Income
While fixed income underperformed in 2022 due to the aggressive rate hiking cycles by central banks, fixed income portfolios could...
PWC
- Jan 30
New Ball, New Game: The Role Of Liquid Alternatives In Balanced Portfolios
A ‘new game’ for investors due to the regime change from ultra-low interest rates to a higher-for-longer scenario and, possibly, a...
PWC
- Jan 30
Blockchain Offers More Than Crypto Trading
A majority of asset managers believe there are better uses for blockchain than trading cryptocurrencies, says the ‘Future of Finance...
PWC
- Jan 30
Appetite For Risk Increases
Professional investors say the funds they help to manage will increase their appetite for risk over the next 12 months in light of...
PWC
- Jan 30
VC Brushes Off Challenging Conditions
The Canadian venture capital (VC) market brushed off challenging conditions to end 2022 on a strong note, says data from KPMG in Canada....
PWC
- Jan 30
Canadian ETF Inflows Slip
The ETFs industry in Canada gathered net inflows of US$6.01 billion during December, bringing year-to-date net inflows to US$30.85...
PWC
- Jan 23
Billionaire Wealth Growth Accelerates
In Canada, billionaires have seen their wealth grow by a 51 per cent since the pandemic began, says an Oxfam report. ‘Survival of the...
PWC
- Jan 23
Productivity Needed For GDP Growth
As employment growth slows or goes into reverse in most developed economies, GDP growth will have to increasingly come by way of...
PWC
- Jan 23
Canadian Investors Could Ride Out Volatility
While consensus forecasts are for a mild recession in Canada in 2023, HSBC Canada Asset Management’s ‘Outlook for January 2023’ says...
PWC
- Jan 23
Affluent Turning To Alternatives
Alternative investing is gaining momentum among high-net-worth (HNW) investors (those with $5 million or more in total investable...
PWC
- Jan 23
Managers Less Bearish
Fund managers are opening the new year with significantly less bearishness than December due to growing optimism regarding China and the...
PWC
- Jan 23
ETPs With Cryptos Increase
Exchange traded products (ETPs) worldwide that have cryptocurrencies as underlying assets increased 50 per cent to 162 from 109 in 2022,...
PWC
- Jan 16
Economic Slowdown To Heighten
The year ahead will see peak inflation and a global economic slowdown heightened as interest rates work their way through the markets,...
PWC
- Jan 16
Market Normalizes For Luxury Real Estate
The market normalization trend for homes priced over $1 million in Canada's most in-demand metropolitan real estate markets established...
PWC
- Jan 16
Ontario Farmland – The Undiscovered Alternative
Farmland may be the last trillion-dollar asset class that has not been ‘financialized’ or taken over by investors, says Anthony Faiella,...
PWC
- Jan 16
Efforts To Curb Inflation Key To Economy
Whether central banks have done enough to rein in inflation is key to the narrative for the economy going forward. However, this remains...
Felix Narhi
New Ball, New Game: The Role Of Liquid Alternatives In Balanced Portfolios
In the cult classic film ‘The Big Lebowski,’ Jeff Bridges plays The Dude whose life is thrown into disarray when his beloved rug is...
Anthony Faiella
Ontario Farmland – The Undiscovered Alternative
After four decades of benefiting from the decline in interest rates and the tailwind it provided the standard 60/40 portfolio, investors...
Peter Volny & Linda Goddard
The Road Less Traveled: Portugal and Galicia
We visited Lisbon and Porto many years ago, but had never seen the rest of Portugal so our mission over five weeks was to see as much as...
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