Kernaghan is senior director of investments at the Chicago Community Trust, leading its impact investments program of donor-advised funds. She took the time to answer 5 questions with FIN News.
Digital assets have emerged as a major area of focus for institutional investors with over 80% of endowments and foundations expecting to increase their investments in cryptocurrencies and other digital assets this year, according to a recent survey.
Investors favoring value investing do not need to only focus on small-cap stocks to access the value premium via long-only portfolios, new academic research finds.
Structured credit has begun to garner headlines for the protection it can provide investors against rising rates, however, the accompanying nuances require significant expertise among both managers and allocators, industry experts say.
Demand for outsourced data services among investment managers is growing as the sophistication of available data sources and the wide range of datasets continues to increase, according to a recent report.
Endowments and foundations benefit from managers wielding the evolving power of AI to streamline investing, enhance performance and analyze the growing scale and complexities of the global capital markets.
Most institutional investors expect subpar returns from the U.S. stock market this year amid inflation and concerns regarding the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, according to a recent survey.