Rob Lemon

Builder of businesses with passion for change via automation and the alternatives funds' marketplace

[Rob Lemon @roblimes]

Active ETFs: a lifeline for Europe’s struggling asset managers?

https://t.co/jNEw06vzdk

[Rob Lemon @roblimes]

Canada should respond to Trump by relaxing regulations, passing a ‘Buy Canada’ act, says National Bank CEO

https://t.co/x3gsNxb7Oz

[Rob Lemon @roblimes]

Why more wealth management firms are opting for separately managed accounts

https://t.co/q9xCnmpv1z

[Rob Lemon @roblimes]

JPMorgan and State Street quit climate group as BlackRock scales back

https://t.co/pYldspACw3

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

Where's all the money going that's being withdrawn from bank deposit accounts? Here's some of it: The two-week increase in outstanding U.S. money market funds has been the biggest since April 2020, with the total surging to a record $5.13 trillion: ICI data

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

“Two interventions in 24 hours is pretty extraordinary.” It shows how the problem in the UK pension industry is “much bigger than anyone thought a week ago.”
https://t.co/kDHrOHr1UE

[Rob Lemon @roblimes]

Fund fees drop in most markets as competition heats up

https://t.co/lQsLvkWeSQ via @FT

[Rob Lemon @roblimes]

“Our approach to 60/40 strategies is looking more at owning dividend paying stocks and also allocating more to alternatives, while underweighting bonds"

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[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

Alternative assets, which include private debt, PE, real estate, hedge funds and crypto, “should continue to outperform into 2022:” JPMorgan strategists. They predict the category will return 11% next year, double the 5% gain from stock and bond indexes. https://t.co/Sc4MxNZMOI

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

The 60-40 stock-bond portfolio strategy is recording its biggest monthly loss in almost a year. https://t.co/fFbr6Sz2Ib

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

Digital currencies "will be policy dynamite in the central bankers’ toolkit," creating a means to more efficiently distribute stimulus and potentially pushing government borrowing costs even further below inflation: @macrocredit  https://t.co/65MZp3JKpI

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

“Bitcoin is fun, but it’s a hell of a lot more fun at 100 times leverage.” How the recent selloff was accelerated by high amounts of leverage: https://t.co/lvttcOytjN

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

Jamie Dimon has a very political tone in his annual letter, talking about how "partisan politics" is contributing to societal dysfunction. Piper Sandler's Robert Albertson says he wouldn't be surprised if Dimon ends up in a prominent government position. https://t.co/W63lbGaCJM

[Katia Porzecanski @KatiaPorzo]

Distressed-debt specialists are rummaging for increasingly elusive bargains because of low interest rates and federal aid to the U.S. economy https://t.co/XjYXpU3dt2 via @markets

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

“Retail investors have gone into hibernation in the past couple weeks.” https://t.co/GPPO3GgJbU

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

Janet Yellen focused on hedge funds as potential nodes of financial instability at her first FSOC meeting as Treasury Secretary. “The pandemic showed that leverage of some hedge funds can amplify stresses.” https://t.co/1C1O0FqGEt via @markets

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

The selloff in Treasuries is gaining steam, with 10-year yields now the highest since January 2020. The Archegos blowup seems fairly contained, but there's concern that rising yields will prompt a wider pullback from risk that'll squeeze other highly leveraged traders.

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

Given Archegos’s size, unwinding its positions could generate losses of $2.5 billion to $5 billion for the financial industry, depending on how hard it is to liquidate holdings: JPMorgan’s Kian Abouhossein https://t.co/u846EOh6D1

[CAIA Association @CAIAAssociation]

CAIA and @AIMA_org recently published an updated risk rating guideline for #hedgefunds and #privatecredit funds. Join us for a #webcast on April 5 for an overview of these updates and how to align internal/external risk ratings: https://t.co/Zs6WA9wjdH