The Illusion of Rationality Behavioural Finance, Factors, Quant & Systematic Not all problems are computable and there is good reasons to believe that many investment problems fall into this category, Professor Carsten Murawski of the Brain, Mind & Markets Lab says. Read More
Does Your ESG Policy Breach Fiduciary Duty? ESG, Factors, Quant & Systematic There are limits to how much of an ESG tilt you can introduce to your portfolio before it becomes more risky than a market index. But what is too much? Harin de Silva of Analytic Investors has found a way to measure this. Read More
No Data Lakes Please! Factors, Quant & Systematic, Innovation Gideon Smith believes machine learning will offer investors plenty of opportunities to create a special sauce for their investment process. But if you think it is simply about capturing large amounts of data, then you’ve got it wrong, he says. 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
To Time or not to Time Factors? Factors, Quant & Systematic It has sometimes been portrayed as the Battle of the Quants. For some years now, AQR founder Cliff Asness and Research Affiliates founder Rob Arnott have been at loggerheads over the question of whether you can time factors or not. And it is a question that has occupied the minds of many asset owners, not […] Read More
PKA raises Questions about Factors Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Factors, Quant & Systematic Danish pension fund PKA was one of the first institutional investors to implement a factors-based investment approach. But the recent dismal performance of these strategies is testing the faith of the fund, Deputy CIO Michael Flycht says. Read More
PGGM Questions Over-diversification and Benchmarks Asset Owners, Factors, Quant & Systematic, Leadership & Management Most asset owners are over-diversified and rely too much on market capitalisation weighted benchmarks for them to deliver optimal long term pension benefits, Dutch pension fund PGGM says. Read More
Forget Big Data, It’s about Tiny Data Factors, Quant & Systematic, Innovation Systematic investing today is about finding signals in lots of tiny data and you need humans to give it context, Two Sigma CEO says. Read More
Does Factor Investing Work in Private Markets? Factors, Quant & Systematic BlackRock’s Andrew Ang believes that ultimately all investment returns can be explained by factors. But you would be wrong to think this means you can package each asset class neatly up into an exchange-traded fund. Read More
