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
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
Future Fund Replaces $14bn of Hedge Funds Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets The Future Fund has replaced two-thirds of its hedge fund managers, or $14 billion worth of assets, in a four-year overhaul of its hedge fund portfolio, in an effort to reduce beta exposure. Read More
Pan Māori Fund Raises Nearly Double Targeted Amount Pacific Region, Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance The first pan-Māori investment fund reaches nearly double the targeted seed money at the close of its capital raising. Read More
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 […] Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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 […] Read More
Alpha’s Loss of Mystery Factors, Quant & Systematic, Private & Alternative Markets If you can explain a source of alpha, then is it still alpha? Read More
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