Australia Needs to Export Technology, Not Talent: Farquhar Private & Alternative Markets, Risk and Regulation If Australia is to maintain its standard of living, it needs to make a greater effort to build a domestic technology industry, rather than allowing its well-educated professionals to be poached by overseas companies. Scott Farquhar, co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, told an audience of venture capital and institutional investors in early March that Australian […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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. Read More
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
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