Innovation Archives - Investment Innovation Institute

Insights articles categorised 'Innovation'

Five percent of your Portfolio will kill off the Rest: Sicilia

Tech Catches Up to Current Investment Thinking

As more institutional investors move towards a whole-of-portfolio approach, they run into a problem: most of the technology platforms they use to keep track of their assets have not been built with that approach in mind. Instead, most systems available today were initially designed to compare the performance of a single asset class against a […]

Keeping Track of What We Know

Innovation, 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.

Interested in Blockchain? There is an ETF for that

Innovation, MarketFox

MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli is back from the United States and tells of his adventures in ETF land.

Investing Alongside Machines

Behavioural Finance, Innovation

In his new book ‘Cyborg’, Simon Russell explores how investment teams and artificial intelligence could come together. And it is not as scary as you might think it is.

Introducing the [i3] Insights Podcast

Innovation

This year we kick off with a brand new service: The [i3] Insights Podcast. Learn more about how you can access our podcasts conveniently.

Searching for the Rolls Royce of ETFs

Innovation, MarketFox

MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli is off to the United States to attend a conference on ETFs and in this article he makes the case for active managers to create high-quality, state of the art, ETFs before somebody else does.

Seeking Alpha in Crises

Asset Allocation, Factor Investing, Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets

Crisis risk offset sleeves have drawn increasingly more attention from institutional investors, but what do these portfolios actually contain? With bond yields at historic low levels and interest rates rising many institutional investors are questioning whether the negative correlation between equities and bonds – the very foundation of the widely used ‘balance portfolio’ in the […]

Seeking Out the Opportunities from Climate Change

ESG, Innovation

Building a sustainable future provides some good opportunities for emerging growth, Hermes’ Andrew Parry says.

Validating Ideas Through Strategic Partnerships

Innovation, Strategy

Jeffrey Scott, former Chief Investment Officer of the Alaska Permanent Fund, speaks about how strategic partnerships helped him transition from a treasury role to a CIO.