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Inflation, volatility, and valuations: 3 reasons hedge funds fit today’s market
Our multi-asset strategists explain why economic and market conditions in the year ahead could make a compelling case for adding hedge funds to the asset allocation mix, including multi-strategy and equity long/short hedge funds.
Are hedge funds the missing ingredient?
Inflation, volatility, and valuations — they all raise questions about portfolio diversification and resilience. Multi-Asset Strategists Nanette Abuhoff Jacobson and Adam Berger explain why multi-strategy and equity long/short hedge funds could provide the answers. They offer insights on adding allocations to a traditional portfolio mix and a recipe for manager selection.
Low tide, sharp eyes: What to pick up
Fixed Income Managers Campe Goodman and Rob Burn share their outlook for credit in 2026 and discuss how investors can reposition for an environment where opportunities are harder to find.
Finding durable value amid shifting currents
Fixed Income Strategist Amar Reganti and Investment Director Marco Giordano explore how to approach bond investing in 2026. They see durable value for investors who can flexibly adjust to the shifting currents ahead.
Investing in 2026: prepare for inflationary growth
Macro Strategists John Butler and Eoin O'Callaghan share their annual macro outlook and discuss likely implications for markets and investors. They outline four potential scenarios graded by level of probability.
Can markets keep climbing the wall of worry?
Our multi-asset strategists analyze the market’s exuberance and share their overweight and underweight views on equities, credit, government bonds, and commodities.
Time to diversify your diversifiers with hedge funds?
Christopher Perret highlights potential benefits of adding uncorrelated strategies, such as hedge funds, to portfolios to navigate turbulent markets.
Rapid Fire Questions with Alex Chambers
In this edition of “Rapid Fire Questions,” Director of Alternatives, Hedge Funds, APAC, Alex Chambers answers four key questions on the role and opportunities of hedge funds in today’s market.
Allocating to alternatives: A role-based guide for corporate DB plans
For corporate plan sponsors thinking about weaving hedge funds and private equity into their portfolios, we offer this brief guide to the potential benefits and key considerations when establishing an allocation, including liquidity stress testing.
Europe: Fertile ground for long/short alpha opportunities
Dirk Enderlein, Eoin O’Callaghan, and Boris Kergall, explore European equity opportunities from a long/short perspective against a backdrop of volatile markets and structural growth shifts.
WellSaid: Partnering with climate founders
Wellington head of private climate Greg Wasserman discusses his team's approach to helping private companies progress along their growth journey
The allocator’s checklist for 2025 and beyond
Head of Multi-Asset Strategy Adam Berger offers near- and longer-term ideas for allocators, including thoughts on alternatives, potential market surprises, and risk management.
Three performance drivers could help hedge funds rev up returns
Alex King and Adam Berger, members of our Investment Strategy & Solutions Group, explain why we're at a turning point for economic and market conditions that could benefit hedge funds and make them a potentially valuable addition to a multi-asset portfolio.
Alternative Investment Outlook
This collection provides timely ideas across the spectrum of alternative investments -- including hedge funds, private equity, and private credit.
Accelerating the future of active management
CEO Jean Hynes explains how Wellington is building for the future of active management by investing in our capabilities and aligning our organization and talent with clients’ shifting needs.
Private biotech: Immunology and inflammation’s third wave
Our experts discuss how I&I is building on industry progress to offer new treatment solutions and interesting opportunities for private biotech investors.
“Goldilocks” and the three drivers of hedge fund outperformance
Members of our Investment Strategy & Solutions Group explain why shifting economic conditions may bode well for hedge funds broadly but also see reasons that manager selection may be more important than ever.
Decoding impact expectations: best practices for impact investors and companies
We share three recommendations each for impact investors and companies to help them better understand and manage each other's expectations.
Private equity deep dive
We explore four key private equity questions to help investors better understand how these strategies compare and complement each other in a portfolio. In particular, we highlight the distinct opportunity sets, risk-return characteristics, and portfolio roles of venture capital and buyout strategies.
When public and private markets converge
Wellington President Steve Klar discusses the evolution of the public and private markets and what it means for asset owners as they seek to tap into the growth potential of private companies and be more nimble in their investment approach.
What the yen carry trade unwind could mean for markets and the Fed
Brij Khurana explains why market participants are likely underestimating how foreign ownership of US assets could constrain the pace and magnitude of the Fed’s cutting cycle.
Picture this: Our forecast in 7 charts
What should investors expect for the remainder of 2024? View a visual summary of our Investment Outlook in seven compelling charts.
CLO equity insights: Private credit
Explore how the convergence of public and private markets is impacting CLO equity, including the unexpected benefit it has driven in recent years.
Global macro strategies: Multi-dimensional tools for an era of economic change
With the global economic environment creating potential opportunities for macro investors, we consider the heterogeneity of the global macro strategy universe, the case for combining different styles, and the choice between a single- and a multi-portfolio manager approach.
Investing in “3D”: Forces shaping alternatives opportunities in 2024
Multi-Asset Strategists Adam Berger and Nick Samouilhan offer six ideas from the hedge fund and liquid alternatives investment space, from global macro to multi-strategy approaches.
Governments have been slow to reduce their fiscal deficits — it could cost them
Our expert explores the investment implications of continued excessive deficit spending by G7 countries.
Innovation and M&A driving biotech recovery
We are optimistic that the biotech market will continue to recover, supported by innovation, an improving macroeconomic environment, continued M&A activity, and improved fundamentals for the sector.
Can hedge funds play the role?
How should investors select the most suitable types of hedge funds for specific roles? Members of our Investment Strategy & Solutions Group offer a simple and intuitive framework that can help.
Picking the right building blocks for a climate-aware portfolio
For asset owners integrating climate change into their multi-asset portfolios, members of our Investment Strategy & Solutions Group offer five important insights.
Hyper-personalization and the AI-driven commerce revolution
A member of our early-stage venture team explores the many ways in which artificial intelligence is likely to transform the consumer experience.
Venture capital outlook: Signals point to a brighter 2024
Our private investing team sees positive signals indicating that the recent downturn in venture capital may have hit bottom. Just as privates trailed the public market correction in 2022, we believe they will follow its recovery.
Annual message from our CEO: At a crossroads
CEO Jean Hynes offers perspectives on the current macro and market environment, including the need to challenge long-held assumptions, prepare for persistent disruption, and consider the resulting investment opportunities and risks.
Five key ESG topics for private companies in 2024
See where our ESG for Private Investments team is focusing to minimize investment risk and maximize company value in 2024 and beyond.
Embracing uncertainty: Three alternatives ideas for a macro-driven world
Even as investors wrestle with the economic unknowns heading into 2024, Multi-Asset Strategists Nick Samouilhan and Adam Berger see opportunities to put alternative investments to work.
Private credit: Key market themes for the year ahead
In our annual private credit outlook, learn about three themes that have dominated headlines recently and may create opportunities for parts of the private credit market going forward.
Growth efficiency: The new venture capital regime
Frederik Groce, Deal Lead for Wellington Access Ventures, explores how the 'growth-at-any-cost' venture capital regime has shifted to a focus on growth efficiency, highlighting two key metrics for companies to keep top of mind.
Private investing portfolio company interview with AMP Robotics CEO
Dr. Matanya Horowitz, CEO of AMP Robotics, highlights how the company integrates AI and robotics into the recycling industry and explores the “actionable guidance” Wellington provides on ESG and other strategic issues.
Supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs
We highlight how Wellington Access Ventures, our early-stage VC platform, partners with historically underrepresented founders and offers the capital, resources, and networks that these companies have historically lacked.
Private investing portfolio company interview with RayzeBio CEO Ken Song
Dr. Ken Song, President and CEO of RayzeBio, discusses the company’s innovative approach to radiopharmaceuticals and highlights how Wellington’s public and private investment expertise is distinctive in the health care space.
WellSaid: Partnering with portfolio companies
Co-head of private investing Michael Carmen explores how we partner with portfolio companies to help them along the "last mile from the private market to the public market" including on key ESG issues for private companies to consider.
Mind the liquidity (and cost) gap: Revisiting a plan’s hedge-ratio approach
Members of our LDI Team take a fresh look at the process of setting and managing liability hedge ratio targets, including liquidity considerations that are top of mind today and the implementation toolkit.
Is your asset allocation ready for the realities of climate change?
Our Investment Strategy Team shares key findings from the research behind their climate-aware strategic asset allocation (SAA) approach, including challenges and trade-offs that asset owners should understand.
Designing a climate-aware strategic asset allocation
Members of our Investment Strategy Team explain how they incorporate climate metrics into their asset allocation optimization process. They also discuss implementation — the choice of specific climate-aware building blocks and strategies to express the desired asset allocation.
Take credit: Our five best credit market ideas for 2023
Fixed Income Strategist Amar Reganti highlights credit market opportunities that he expects to arise over the course of 2023, against a backdrop of slowing growth.
Navigating the new global economy in 2023
This executive summary distills the points of view of several of our 2023 Outlook authors. Discover the risks and opportunities they see as we enter a new economic and market regime.
Picture this: Our 2023 economic forecast in five charts
We explain the shifts the market is undergoing, analyze the implications for different asset classes, and identify potential risks and opportunities in a series of visuals.
Perspectives on today’s alternative investment environment
Take a quick tour of the alternative investment environment with investors from across our macro research and hedge fund teams, as they explore the geopolitical landscape, macro volatility, and key trends like climate-change adaptation and digital tokenization.
Fintech opportunities after the recent pullback
In four short videos, our fintech investors explore the sector's outlook amid today’s dispersion and highlight the long-term growth potential in payments, fintech incumbents, and crypto innovation.
Fintech market overview: The intersection of disruption and dispersion
In the latest episode of WellSaid, Portfolio Manager Matt Lipton and Global Industry Analyst Matt Ross join host Thomas Mucha to discuss their outlook for fintech in today's environment, exploring the recent pullback in the sector, disruptive fintech innovations, potential regulation, and much more.
A new economic era: Why inflation, volatility, and cycles are back
Macro Strategist John Butler argues that a seismic global shift is underway that will disrupt the macro dynamics of the past two decades, challenging long-held investment assumptions.
Macro renaissance: The opportunity ahead for investors
As the global economy and financial markets transition to a new, potentially more volatile era, macro investment strategies may be well positioned to take advantage of market dislocations and greater asset price differentiation.
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