Wouter Klijn - Investment Innovation Institute

Australia Needs to Export Tech, Not Talent: Farquhar

Australia Needs to Export Technology, Not Talent: Farquhar

Too Many Investment Advisers Don’t Get Portfolio Construction

Asset Allocation & Strategy, Women in Finance

Portfolio construction is a specialised skill and there are too many professionals in the investment industry who manage people’s money without the right knowledge to build portfolios, according to the new chair of the CIMA Society of Australia. “I took the chair role because there are a lot of people who make decisions about investments […]

Oliver Karius, Partner at LGT Venture Philanthropy

Mobile Platforms Help Open Up Rural African Markets

Emerging Markets, Private & Alternative Markets

LGT Impact Ventures sees more companies using mobile applications to create distribution networks in remote African areas, creating new opportunities to services lower and middle income people.

Ashby Monk, Executive & Research Director at Stanford Long-term Investing

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.

Michael Block, former CIO, Australian Catholic Super

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.

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.

Gerben de Zwart, Head of Investment Solutions at APG Asset Management

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.

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.

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.