Asset owners face strategic questions at the nexus of three distinct areas: the capital market outlook, changes in asset managers’ offerings, and how the policy environment is changing the needs and benchmarks of asset owners. Growing constraints on real return generation, diversification challenges, and a shifting dividing line between alpha and beta point to a need to rethink strategic asset allocation. We'll explore these and other topics in this note.

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