Analysis Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events With global investment banks predicting a lackluster 2019 for financial market returns, you might expect the guardians of pension assets to chase performance either by seeking the alpha promised by hedge funds or warming to Brexit-beaten U.K. stocks. You’d be wrong on both counts. Amundi SA, Europe’s biggest fund manager, teamed up with CREATE-Research to survey pension managers across the European Union. The poll, published this week, covered 149 plans overseeing 1.89 trillion euros ($2.15 trillion).