Investments

Tails of risk

By most accounts, the current financial crisis is epochal — the worst since the Depression. Still, it is a truism in asset management: look after the downside and the returns will look after themselves. But how well do asset managers look after the downside? In the current market meltdown, evidence of failure isn’t hard to […]

By Scot Blythe |March 27, 2009

3 min read

Private equity firms batten down the hatches

Canadian equities have proven no place to hide during the financial storm, and that applies to firms operating in private markets too: venture capital, mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts. And that storm whips up winds in all directions. Fundraising has dwindled as traditional private equity investors find themselves overextended. The general partnerships that invest the […]

By Scot Blythe |March 23, 2009

4 min read

Economy is bad, but stock valuations aren’t: Report

The world is in a deep global recession that’s expected to continue until at least the end of this year, but that doesn’t mean the markets aren’t rife with opportunity, according to the latest Global Investment Outlook by the country’s largest asset manager, RBC Asset Management. According to RBC’s 70-page spring investment outlook, authored by […]

By Mark Noble |March 12, 2009

5 min read

Hedge funds expect regulation, added costs

This year is not going to be easy for hedge fund managers, according to a survey of the managers themselves. While almost all want to raise new investment capital, nearly 84% expect competition for qualified investors to be fierce, according to a survey by New York–based CPA firm Rothstein Kass. “Though hedge funds outperformed in […]

By Steven Lamb |March 9, 2009

2 min read