Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Managers who are can differentiate with solid ESG credentials stand to prosper, especially as a younger generation begins saving for investment.

The funds are trading at staggering discounts to their net asset values in what some have dubbed an “illiquidity doom loop.”

Risk managers must be especially vigilant about the bets their traders are making to profit from current market dislocations brought on by the coronavirus.

Deposits increased by almost $30 billion in March alone, with clients shifting out of equities and into cash.

With few corners of the fixed-income industry safe from harm, investors’ faith in managers appears to be intact — for now.

There’s a lot to complain about these days, from the effectiveness of the government’s $3 trillion stimulus package to unlimited quantitative easing.

Withdrawals this year have equaled almost half of last year’s inflows, leaving Pimco with net outflows of $46.8 billion in the first quarter.

For better or worse, investors have mostly turned around the fortunes of risky assets entirely on their own.

With many clients already home from work because of the pandemic, advisors are being asked why not now? For most, even the wealthy, the answer is clear.

Don’t expect significant changes anytime soon to longstanding complaints about conflicts of interest in the “issuer pay” model of the ratings business.