Fintech – Beyond the Buzzwords Asset Allocation & Strategy, Innovation Despite all the hype, current developments in Fintech will lead to some pretty significant changes to the investment industry and the global economy, Pranay Gupta says. Read More
February Didn’t Kill Crisis Alpha Financial Crisis, Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance The 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
China’s Next Digital Evolution Emerging Markets, Innovation In 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 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
Getting Machine Learning Back on Track Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets Quantitative 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
Sunsuper Discusses Partnership Program Asset Owners, Innovation Sunsuper has lift the hood on its partnership program and the results are surprising to say the least. Read More
5% of Portfolio will Kill the Rest: Sicilia Asset Owners, Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets As the rate of technological change speeds up, investment portfolios become increasingly vulnerable to disruption, Sam Sicilia says. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
