Aberdeen: Embracing commodities to support diversification goals
Aberdeen: Embracing commodities to support diversification goals March 13th, 2026
AICA Member Profile: Liberty Street Advisors
Liberty Street Advisors, Inc. (“Liberty Street”), is a New York City-based investment advisory firm founded in 2007. The firm is employee-owned and led by CEO Timothy Reick, COO Victor Fontana, and CIO Christian Munafo, ...
Nuveen’s Langenfeld: ‘A timely opportunity’ to invest in preferred securities
Brenda Langenfeld, lead portfolio manager for the Nuveen Preferred and Income Opportunities Fund and the Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred and Income Fund, says that conditions are favorable on a number of different levels...
AICA Panel: Interval Funds Make Special Situations Credit, Late-Stage Venture Investing a Retail Reality
Investing in late-stage venture capital, or investments that occur after a venture-backed company has demonstrated viability and may be looking to sell or go public, is increasingly open to nonaccredited investors thanks to the structure of interval funds, a leadership panel at AICA’s 2023 Fall Roundtable said. Interval funds also present an upside opportunity for those seeking portfolio diversification, experts from Destra, Liberty Street Advisors, and Brookfield said at the November 15, 2023, event in New York City.
Nuveen’s Chintapalli says the high-yield market has never looked less junky
Ravi Chintapalli, Client Portfolio Manager covering leveraged finance for the Nuveen Global Fixed Income team, says that he has never seen a high-yield market that has been higher quality than what he is seeing now. That helps to explain tighter spreads, and suggests ...
Closed-End Fund Discounts Widen Again in Q3
After the Fed's benchmark rate cut on September 17, 2025, investors moved quickly into municipal bond closed-end funds (CEFs), international bonds, and preferred equity: sectors that stood gain swift relief from the quarter-point rate reduction.


