PGGM Questions Over-diversification and Benchmarks Asset Owners, Factors, Quant & Systematic, Leadership & Management Most asset owners are over-diversified and rely too much on market capitalisation weighted benchmarks for them to deliver optimal long term pension benefits, Dutch pension fund PGGM says. Read More
Bubble in Parts of China Tech Sector Emerging Markets Valuations of smaller Chinese technology companies are starting to look frothy, T. Rowe Price says. Read More
In-housing Improves Outsourcing: Pearce Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Leadership & Management Bringing select asset management functions in-house puts you in a better position to engage with external managers, UniSuper’s John Pearce says. Read More
Diversity Pays Off: AXA IM Asset Allocation & Strategy, Women in Finance Diversity might actually be an investment signal. Companies with gender-diverse boards are likely to not only have higher profits than companies with less diversified boards, but are also better able to protect future profits, AXA IM says. Read More
China’s Next Digital Evolution Emerging Markets, Innovation In his new book, Winston Ma describes the next phase of the evolution of China’s digital economy, which will see the merger of online and offline. Read More
The Physical Risks of Climate Change ESG, Women in Finance Institutional investors recognise climate change as one of the key long term risks, but many struggle to find a practical way to assess the impact on their investment portfolios. Looking at physical risk is one way to tackle the problem, DWS says. Read More
Forget Big Data, It’s about Tiny Data Factors, Quant & Systematic, Innovation Systematic investing today is about finding signals in lots of tiny data and you need humans to give it context, Two Sigma CEO says. Read More
TCorp Overhaul Permeates Foundations Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Risk and Regulation TCorp’s new structure places portfolio construction at the heart of its investment process, focusing on a whole-of-fund approach, CIO Stewart Brentnall says. Read More
Getting Machine Learning Back on Track Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets Quantitative portfolio manager Tony Guida felt that the discussion on machine learning and AI was heading in the wrong direction and decided to do something about it: write a book with practical applications for investors. Read More
