One of the most fun things about managing your own investments is coming up with an asset allocation strategy to diversify your portfolio. You get to tinker like an alchemist to find a blend of asset classes that will weather the inevitable financial storms ahead – and hopefully someday leave you dancing upon the sunlit … Read more
Nearly every enterprise is experimenting with AI, but an overwhelming 90% of AI projects never scale beyond the proof-of-concept stage, and more than 97% of organizations experience difficulties demonstrating the business value of generative AI (genAI), according to an Informatica survey.[i] A major reason is that many cautious business leaders treat AI as a source of incremental improvements … Read more
What do we want? We want inflation protection, we want it now, and we want it, ideally, in a highly-reliable set-and-forget format please. I’m a passive investor after all, and I’ve been hunting for alternatives since the passive investor’s choice of inflation insulation – a short-duration index-linked bond ETF – had a [checks glossary of … Read more
Duvet day here at Monevator as we update our asset allocation quilt with another year’s worth of returns. The resulting patchwork reveals the fluctuating fortunes of the major asset classes across a decade, and invites a question… Could you predict the winners and losers from one year to the next? Asset allocation quilt 2024 The … Read more
Allianz SE has temporarily halted talks with Amundi SA over combining its Allianz Global Investors asset management arm with the French company. The two sides were unable to agree on a deal structure, including control of the combined entity, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because … Read more