Markets Could Stabilise as Quarter End Nears Equities, Financial Crisis, Pacific Region As we are heading towards the end of the quarter, the chances are that stock markets will stabilise somewhat since many pension and other multi-asset funds will need to buy equities to get back to target weights. Read More
VFMC Shifts Internal Equities to Benchmark Unaware Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Equities, Innovation VFMC has changed the way its internal equity invests, shifting towards a benchmark unaware strategy, away from the previous Top 50 stocks approach, CIO Russell Clarke says. Read More
It’s Time to Sin a Little Equities, Factors, Quant & Systematic AQR has always questioned the merits of factor timing, stating it is too difficult to do consistently well. But valuations have now become so irrational that even they believe a skew towards value is warranted. It is time to sin a little. Read More
AustralianSuper Scales up Machine Learning Asset Owners, Equities, Factors, Quant & Systematic, Innovation AustralianSuper started its first machine-learning strategy only two years ago, but already it has become a near core strategy and has a substantial amount of money running in it. Read More
The Average Company Doesn’t Matter Equities Investing is about capturing the outliers, Baillie Gifford’s Tom Slater says. In a study of long term buy-and-hold strategies, he found that more than 50 per cent of returns were driven by just three companies in the portfolio. But how do you find these outliers? Read More
HESTA Eyes Fundamental Aus Equities Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Equities, Women in Finance Australian pension fund HESTA is considering creating an internal fundamental Australian equities capability in an effort to address capacity constraints and drive company engagement. Read More
APG Sees More Dispersion of Returns Ahead Asset Owners, Equities, Innovation The rise of alternative data sets is likely to create a wider dispersion of investors’ returns as the wide range of available data will lead investors to take more varying approaches than they have done so in the past, according to APG Asset Management. Read More
Stock Markets Are Increasingly Irrelevant Economics, Equities Stock markets are less about investing and more about collecting rents these days, Tim Hodgson of TAG says. He questions whether the distinction between public and private will survive with the rise of blockchain technology. Read More
An Ode to Crowding Equities, Factors, Quant & Systematic, Risk and Regulation Investors should learn to love crowding, Wells Fargo’s Wai Lee says. Read More
