Private & Alternative Markets – Page 10 – Investment Innovation Institute

Pan Māori Fund Raises Nearly Double Targeted Amount

Australia Needs to Export Tech, Not Talent: Farquhar

Australia Needs to Export Technology, Not Talent: Farquhar

Private & Alternative Markets, Risk and Regulation

If Australia is to maintain its standard of living, it needs to make a greater effort to build a domestic technology industry, rather than allowing its well-educated professionals to be poached by overseas companies. Scott Farquhar, co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, told an audience of venture capital and institutional investors in early March that Australian […]

Oliver Karius, Partner at LGT Venture Philanthropy

Mobile Platforms Help Open Up Rural African Markets

Emerging Markets, Private & Alternative Markets

LGT Impact Ventures sees more companies using mobile applications to create distribution networks in remote African areas, creating new opportunities to services lower and middle income people.

Looking for Liquidity in PNG

Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Pacific Region, Private & Alternative Markets

Running a pension fund in Papua New Guinea comes with its own unique challenges. Managing liquidity in a mostly illiquid market is one of them, NASFund CIO David Brown says.

Seeking Alpha in Crises - Investment Innovation Institute

Seeking Alpha in Crisis

Asset Allocation & Strategy, Factors, Quant & Systematic, 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 […]

Alpha Loss of Mystery - Investment Innovation Institute

Alpha’s Loss of Mystery

Factors, Quant & Systematic, Private & Alternative Markets

If you can explain a source of alpha, then is it still alpha?

TIAA looks at Expanding the ESG Universe

ESG, Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance

TIAA Investments has ESG specialists embedded in their real estate and farmland investment teams. Now, the asset manager has set its sight on integrating ESG into its fixed income strategies.

Don’t Underestimate Technology-driven Deflation

Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative Markets

Technological advancement and global demographics may have changed the foundations of our global economy permanently, Principal Global Investors CEO says.