The Endowment Model and Innovation Asset Allocation & Strategy, Innovation The endowment model is one of the most celebrated investment models among institutional investors, but if you replicated what David Swensen was doing at Yale today, would it still work? Perhaps we shouldn’t look at the strategies Swenson implemented, but at his willingness to try lesser-known, innovative investments Read More
REST CIO on Investment Review Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers Rest has overhauled its investment and governance model, moving to a model with a single investment function. We speak with CIO Andrew Lill about the implications for the portfolio and the investment team. Read More
ART Portfolio Construction post Merger Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers In this interview, [i3] Insights speaks with Ian Patrick, Chief Investment Officer of Australian Retirement Trust, about the implications of the recent merger for the fund’s investments and the way it constructs portfolios going forward. Read More
When Risk Parity No Longer Works Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners While risk parity is a great concept, it doesn’t work in the current environment of low rates, rising inflation and macroeconomic turbulence, PFA CIO says. Read More
The Return of Inflation Volatility Asset Allocation & Strategy, Webinars The return of inflation volatility represents the most challenging and significant paradigm shift in decades. Asset owners are going to have to look harder to find protection, as the last 20 years of optimisation will have to give way to resilience. Read More
15 Years of the Future Fund Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners This year the Future Fund celebrates its 15 year anniversary. We take a look at the early days of the fund and how this period shaped the portfolio as it stands today. Read More
Asset Allocation in Times of Volatility Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Women in Finance In these times of heightened macroeconomic and geopolitical volatility, do big asset allocation calls help navigate the investment environment? We asked three different types of funds for their views on the matter. Read More
GIC’s Total Portfolio Approach Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners With a mandate to preserve and enhance the purchasing power of Singapore’s reserves over the long term, GIC believes that its total portfolio approach gives it an edge over more traditional strategic asset allocation (SAA) models Read More
TPA Saves TCorp $15m Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers TCorp has been able to save millions of dollars in fees and reduced the number of external managers by half, as the asset manager moved to a total portfolio approach. Read More
