Asset Allocation & Strategy – Page 12 – Investment Innovation Institute

The Changing Face of Active Management

Combining Best Ideas in Search for Alpha

Good ideas take time. In fact, one of the best ways to kill creativity is to act swiftly and decisively. In a lecture delivered in 1991, British comedian John Cleese gave an insight into why some people are more creative than others and come up with better ideas. Despite what you might think, talent was […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]

Insights: Asset Allocation & Strategy

Combining Best Ideas in Search for Alpha

Too Many Investment Advisers Don’t Get Portfolio Construction

Knowledge Management: Keeping Track of What We Know

True Equity Diversification is Hard

Theory Behind Crisis Risk Offset Makes Sense: CAIA

APG – Pushing the Limits of Factor Investing

Looking for Liquidity in PNG

Introducing the [i3] Podcast

Infrastructure: Opportunities in a Crowded Market