Knowledge Management: Keeping Track of What We Know Asset Allocation & Strategy Institutional investors sit on treasure troves of knowledge about financial transactions, industry networks and due diligence reports. Ashby Monk says the management of this knowledge should be a top priority. Read More
True Equity Diversification is Hard Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Equities Diversification is good, but what assets will truly diversify you from equity risk, Michael Block, CIO of the Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund, asks. Read More
Theory Behind Crisis Risk Offset Makes Sense: CAIA Asset Allocation & Strategy, Financial Crisis Keith Black, who leads a team that develops the curriculum for CAIA, discusses the merits of the increasingly popular crisis risk offset strategy. Read More
APG – Pushing the Limits of Factor Investing Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners Dutch pension fund APG has been running factor-based strategies for more than two decades, but the fund’s Head of Quantitative Equity suspects it’s on the eve of a very big change. Read More
Looking for Liquidity in PNG Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Pacific Region, Private & Alternative Markets Running a pension fund in Papua New Guinea comes with its own unique challenges. Managing liquidity in a mostly illiquid market is one of them, NASFund CIO David Brown says. Read More
Investing Alongside Machines Behavioural Finance, Innovation In his new book ‘Cyborg’, Simon Russell explores how investment teams and artificial intelligence could come together. And it is not as scary as you might think it is. Read More
Introducing the [i3] Podcast Asset Allocation & Strategy This year we kick off with a brand new service: The [i3] Insights Podcast. Learn more about how you can access our podcasts conveniently. Read More
Infrastructure: Opportunities in a Crowded Market Asset Allocation & Strategy, Infrastructure Cyril Cabanes, Head of Infrastructure investments, Asia-Pacific, CDPQ, shares his views on the Australian and Indian markets, his take on disruption and the Canadian pension fund manager’s new in-house expertise in infrastructure development and operation. With all the debate surrounding driverless cars and the future of transportation, you could almost forget driverless trains have been […] Read More
The Curious Case of Cash Financial Crisis, Risk and Regulation, Women in Finance Research by Whitehelm Capital shows that some pension funds are stretching the definition of cash, adding less liquid and even credit instruments in these options. Cash is probably not the most sexy asset class in institutional investing, if you can call it an investment at all, and so you would not expect much controversy around […] Read More