Editorial Archives - Investment Innovation Institute

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Experimenting with Uncertainty

Rio Tinto – A Test Case for ESG

As Rio Tinto destroys a unique piece of cultural heritage will asset owners’ ESG policies enable them to respond, or will it just be business as usual?

Titanic lessons for investment management

Why a Crisis need not be a Tragedy

Editorial, Risk and Regulation

Tragedies happen, not when one thing goes wrong, but when many things go wrong at the same time. Can we learn lessons from the sinking of the Titanic and apply them to our portfolios as the pandemic wreaks havoc? Teik Heng Tan explores this issue.

Portfolio Construction Post Crisis

Editorial, Financial Crisis

As the pandemic starts to slow down across the world, how has the crisis affected investors’ approaches to portfolio construction?

Crisis Risk Offset seems to work, but…

Editorial, Financial Crisis, Innovation

Now that we are in a real time crisis, how are crisis risk offset strategies behaving? Early results are encouraging, but by no means conclusive.

Teik Heng Tan, Executive Director, the Investment Innovation Institute [i3]

A Different Kind of Disruption

Editorial, Financial Crisis, Innovation

Is there an upside to the widespread disruption we see as the coronavirus rips through the world population? Teik Heng Tan explores the intersection of chaos and innovation throughout history.

Looking for the Perfect Hedge

Editorial, Factors, Quant & Systematic

What type of hedge would you put in place to protect your portfolio in the current malaise, if you had the benefit of hindsight?

APRA Concerned over Super Fund SAA

Asset Allocation & Strategy, Editorial, Financial Crisis

Current developments caused by the coronavirus has the regulator worried about funds’ ability to maintain their strategic asset allocation

A Small Lesson in Decision-making under Uncertainty

Editorial, Financial Crisis, Pacific Region

Confronted with the question whether to postpone one of our forums or not, the situation turned out to provide a small lesson on decision-making under uncertainty, [i3]’s Teik Heng Tan writes.

Assessing the Coronavirus Impact

Economics, Editorial, Financial Crisis

The world is facing a potential global pandemic as the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly outside of China. Markets have reacted violently to the news that community transmissions are taking place across Europe and the Middle East. But does history tell us anything about the impact of pandemics on markets? In this editorial, Wouter Klijn, Director of Content at [i3], explores the potential economic impact.