Not Worried About Volatility? Risk and Regulation Multi-strategy funds have not faced easy market conditions, so why are they gaining in popularity among institutional investors? Read More
The Search for Green Income ESG, Women in Finance The sectors with the highest median dividend payout ratios are also those that include the largest polluters. Is it possible to build an income strategy that takes ESG into account? Read More
The Beginning of MarketFox MarketFox Six months into the collaboration between MarketFox and i3 Insights, we caught up with Daniel Grioli to hear how his blog came into existence and what he has been working on since leaving LUCRF. Read More
Few Funds Use Academic Factors: Van Gelderen Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers Outgoing APG Group CIO Eduard van Gelderen says that few managers implement factors that bear any resemblance to how they are described in academic studies. Read More
Alpha’s Loss of Mystery Factors, Quant & Systematic, Private & Alternative Markets If you can explain a source of alpha, then is it still alpha? Read More
The External Memory of Slime Innovation Organisms without a brain are able to externalise their memory to tackle complex tasks. Read More
First State Super CIO on State Plus Acquisition Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Risk and Regulation Damian Graham, CIO of First State Super, talks to [i3] Insights about the rationale behind the acquisition of State Super and the benefits to its investment strategy. Read More
Curing the Gaussian Brain Behavioural Finance, Risk and Regulation Emotions don’t stand in the way of sound financial decisions-making; they are crucial to it. Read More
TIAA looks at Expanding the ESG Universe ESG, Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance TIAA Investments has ESG specialists embedded in their real estate and farmland investment teams. Now, the asset manager has set its sight on integrating ESG into its fixed income strategies. Read More
