{"id":253,"date":"2019-08-28T08:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T08:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mithra-advisors\/?page_id=253"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:22:07","slug":"asset-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/asset-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Asset Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><strong>&#8220;Return ON the money or Return OF the money ?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asset Management also known as the &#8220;Buy-side&#8221; covering Pensions, Insurance and all breeds of Funds have also been heavily impacted by the multiple monetary and fiscal booms since the GFC.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand most assets&#8217; risk premiums have shrunk and asset valuations have skyrocketed leading some funds&#8217; closure for lack of returns and a shift toward riskier asset including illiquid Debt and Equity products (Private Equity, Venture Capital&#8230; etc..). Furthermore there has been a powerful trend towards passive asset management (ETFs, trackers, algos and high-frequency) and out of the traditional discretionary management.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Public debts have been promoted and systemically favored as &#8216;safe assets&#8217; by the various regulators while governments were buying growth with ever more deficits and debts.<\/p>\n<p>In recent history also Islamic Finance and Environmental, Sustainable and Governance (&#8220;ESG&#8221;) assets have also flourished as &#8216;responsible investments&#8217; in different parts of the world, introducing non-financial components in the list of investment criteria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Money never sleeps&#8217; and in this section we decipher the trends, the opportunities and the pitfalls of this investment ecosystem in the current cycle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blue-3-icons-horizontal-majlis-new-bold-e1594359782945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"64\" \/><\/p>\n\t<p>\u00a9 2025 Mithra Institute<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Return ON the money or Return OF the money ?&#8221; Asset Management also known as the &#8220;Buy-side&#8221; covering Pensions, Insurance and all breeds of Funds have also been heavily impacted by the multiple monetary and fiscal booms since the GFC. On the one hand most assets&#8217; risk premiums have shrunk and asset valuations have skyrocketed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/asset-management\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asset Management&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mithra-inst.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}