Asset Allocation is Key at VicSuper Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers VicSuper CIO Andrew Howard has positioned the fund’s portfolio to deal with low growth and higher volatility. “I’ll happily accept a lower return than what we might have received from real assets over the last 10 years to ensure we have enough ballast in our portfolio to deliver a smoother pattern of returns.” Read More
The Science of Hedging Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Financial Crisis, Risk and Regulation In the past, decisions about hedging have sometimes involved a bit of an educated guess, but a new paper aims to create rigour around this process. Read More
The Inherent Complexity of Investing Asset Allocation & Strategy Finding solutions to complex problems is often not about more information, as we do in statistics, but about finding novel ways to combine existing information, Professor Carsten Murowski says. Unfortunately, this type of complexity is where computers fail miserably. Read More
Future Fund Appoints Deputy CIO Asset Allocation & Strategy, Chief Investment Officers, Women in Finance The Future Fund appoints former Willis Towers Watson consultant Sue Brake as Deputy CIO. Read More
The Impact of Small Funds Asset Allocation & Strategy Sometimes it pays off for a pension fund to be small and nimble and one area where this is a clear advantage is in impact investing. Read More
ASX Blockchain Targets Communication Asset Allocation & Strategy The Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) efforts in adopting blockchain are not aimed at trading securities over a blockchain system; it is looking to simplify the way it communicates with its end users. Read More
The Pain Premium Asset Allocation & Strategy, Behavioural Finance Could the discomfort an investor feels for holding certain positions be the reason why certain factors don’t get arbitraged away – a pain premium of sorts? Read More
Tesla Model 3 is Brilliant Asset Allocation & Strategy GMO’s Jeremy Grantham says his new Tesla Model 3 is brilliant, but also has some suggestions for improvement. Read More
Fintech – Beyond the Buzzwords Asset Allocation & Strategy, Innovation Despite all the hype, current developments in Fintech will lead to some pretty significant changes to the investment industry and the global economy, Pranay Gupta says. Read More
