NZ Super Maps Capabilities of Partners Innovation, StrategyNew Zealand Super has mapped the expertise of its strategic partners against its research agenda in order to extract full value from its relationships. Read More
APG Sees More Dispersion in Investor Returns Ahead InnovationThe 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. Until recently, most financial strategies have relied on a handful of […] Read More
ASX Blockchain Targets Communication not Trading Asset Allocation, InnovationGerben de Zwart, Head of Quantitative Equities at Dutch pension behemoth APG, believes that the rise in the use of alternative datasets will see a divergence of manager returns, as they will have to pick and choose which databases to analyse. Read More
Stock Markets Are Increasingly Irrelevant Economics, InnovationStock 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
February Didn’t Kill Crisis Alpha Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets, StrategyThe Crisis Risk Offset approach to constructing portfolios has gained some popularity in the US in recent years, but the surprising performance of trend-following strategies in February this year led some people to question the approach. Kathryn Kaminski, who coined the term crisis alpha, examines the evidence. Read More
Bubble in Parts of China Tech Sector Emerging Markets, InnovationValuations of smaller Chinese technology companies are starting to look frothy, T. Rowe Price says. Read More
China’s Next Digital Evolution Emerging Markets, InnovationIn his new book, Winston Ma describes the next phase of the evolution of China’s digital economy, which will see the merger of online and offline. Read More
Forget Big Data, It’s about Tiny Data: Two Sigma Factor Investing, InnovationSystematic 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
Getting Machine Learning Back on Track Innovation, Private & Alternative MarketsQuantitative portfolio manager Tony Guida felt that the discussion on machine learning and AI was heading in the wrong direction and decided to do something about it: write a book with practical applications for investors. Read More
