Allocator research into alternatives is increasing, so it’s more critical than ever for hedge funds to understand how consultants and investors identify, screen and compare strategies. In this webinar, eVestment Global Head of Research Peter Laurelli covers the latest hedge fund industry trends we are seeing in our data, followed by an in-depth, engaging panel discussion with Caroline Greer, CIM, Managing Director at Commonfund and Allen Cheng, Associate Partner at Aon.

Asset allocation information affords public funds the opportunity to benchmark their strategic targets against their peers and review potential landscape shifts around various asset classes. For asset managers, asset allocation data can illuminate areas of demand for specific strategies and show whether or not a product market may be approaching saturation – what we like to think are early signals for activity.

Jakob Hommel, Principal, Spektrum and Alessia Lenders, Manager Research, Redington, provided the commentary for this briefing. Topics covered include: An outlook on EMEA asset flows, b​est practices on manager selection and monitoring, and accessing the best institutional intelligence around ESG and sustainability.

eVestment’s unique position as a data-driven source of intelligence serving institutional asset managers, investors and their consultants globally provides us the ability to produce a holistic view of the themes, trends and trend shifts impacting asset managers around the world.

Each quarter, we mine eVestment data to brief traditional managers on the state of the global institutional market. For this webcast, Nat Kellogg, President & Director of Manager Search at Marquette Associates, provided his commentary as we presented the trends around where assets are moving, what universes consultants and asset owners are researching, how public plans in the US and UK are under-allocated and thematic trends such as ESG.

Brand awareness is an important factor in the growth and long-term success of asset managers seeking to raise institutional assets. In this report, we rank the top asset management firms by brand awareness scores for the quarter across multiple global, regional and asset class categories.

This report is an aggregated look at capital market assumptions from six consultants. The data in this report is sourced from eVestment Market Lens. Among other insights into consultant perspectives such as manager ratings, Market Lens harvests documents from public plans, then extracts and structures insights from those documents, including capital markets assumptions.

Market shocks can be fast, confusing and brutal. Attempting to react to them in real-time often results in suboptimal investment decisions. That’s where risk scenario planning is essential. In this analysis, we use the Solovis Risk Analytics application to simulate the impact of a market shock on a hypothetical public-plan portfolio and model the impact that an uptick in corporate bankruptcies might have on our portfolio.

Comparing fees across strategies and regions is not a simple task. This report organizes management fee data, exploring the current landscape of separate account fees and the differences in actual fees paid by public plan investors versus managers’ stated fees across multiple structures.

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