{"id":61431,"date":"2017-03-13T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/note\/investors-and-managers-share-views-on-trump-le-pen-technology-and-the-future-of-the-alternative-investment-industry-in-cais-2017-survey\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T23:16:00","slug":"investors-and-managers-share-views-on-trump-le-pen-technology-and-the-future-of-the-alternative-investment-industry-in-cais-2017-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/note\/investors-and-managers-share-views-on-trump-le-pen-technology-and-the-future-of-the-alternative-investment-industry-in-cais-2017-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors and Managers Share Views on Trump, Le Pen, Technology and the Future of the Alternative Investment Industry in CAIS 2017 Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A survey of more than 200 leading thinkers and decision-makers in the alternative investment industry in attendance at the 2017 Cayman Alternative Investment Summit (CAIS) revealed that 44% believe the Trump administration represents the biggest potential global risk in 2017. Other top risks include cybersecurity (25%), China (14%), European elections (13%) and Brexit (4%).<\/p>\n<p>In total, more than 500 people attended the event, which explored the theme of <em>&#8220;Defying Gravity: The Future of Alternative Investments in Exceptional Times&#8221;<\/em> and featured speakers such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, David McWilliams, John Mauldin and Mark Yusko.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This next year will be unlike anything the alternative investment industry has ever faced,&#8221;<\/em> said Chris Duggan, Director of CAIS and VP of community development for event sponsor, Dart Enterprises. <em>&#8220;With rapid technological changes and major geopolitical shifts around every corner, the industry must show that it can chart a path through what promises to be choppy waters.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A majority of survey respondents (85%) believe the alternative investment industry will grow assets over the next five years, with 46% predicting there will be fewer funds than there are today and 39% predicting there will be more funds. Comparatively, only 8% believe the industry will shrink in terms of both assets and funds, with 7% foreseeing fewer assets but more funds in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Throughout this conference, leading thinkers discussed how to move the alternative investment industry forward in these uncertain times,&#8221;<\/em> said Tony Cowell, Chair of the Editorial Committee for CAIS and Partner, Head of Alternative Investments at KPMG. <em>&#8220;Although challenges abound, there is strong enthusiasm among both investors and fund managers that, while still evolving, the industry will only continue to grow.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other survey highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Predicting the next &#8216;Brexit&#8217; or &#8216;Trump&#8217; moment:<\/strong> A majority of respondents (51%) picked Marine Le Pen winning the French presidential election as the next event most likely to upset global markets, followed by Angela Merkel losing the German chancellor election (39%) and Geert Wilders winning the Dutch parliamentary election (9%)<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Investors most bullish on non-traditional asset classes:<\/strong> 40% of investors are most bullish about the opportunity for 2017 returns from real estate and real assets, far outpacing commodities (28%), equities (18%) and credit (14%)<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Philanthropy continues to be a big theme:<\/strong> A third of survey respondents said they regularly donate to a variety of causes or charities, with an additional 27% donating to a specific cause or charity. However, 22% take it a step further by also sitting on the board of a charity and partnering with other philanthropic organizations or investors.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Artificial intelligence poised to disrupt 2017:<\/strong> Nearly a third of attendees (31%) think AI is the emerging technology that will have the most impact on the world in 2017. Other popular choices included robotics\/automation (19%), blockchain (18%), cybersecurity (16%), self-driving cars (10%) and wearable tech (5%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The survey was collected during the 2017 Cayman Alternative Investment Summit (CAIS), held at the new Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa in the Cayman Islands on February 15-17, 2017. The annual, not-for-profit event convened 500-plus institutional investors, fund managers, academics, economists, regulators and service providers to discuss opportunities and challenges facing the alternative investment community.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Cayman Alternative Investment Summit will be held at the same venue on February 7-9, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>44% believe Trump administration represents the biggest global risk in 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":61429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1481],"tags":[1655,2073,1651,1437,1724,2091],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}