Unlisted Assets Should be Valued More Often Financial Crisis, Private & Alternative Markets, Real Estate Asset owners should value their unlisted assets more frequently in the current market environment, according to Willis Towers Watson. Read More
Mind The Gap Asset Allocation & Strategy, Chief Investment Officers, Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative Markets China Pacific Insurance Group CIO Ben Deng speaks to [i3] Insights about the challenges of closing the asset/liability gap in today’s low-yielding environment and shares his excitement about opportunities in Chinese private equity. Read More
How to Spot a Unicorn Opinion, Private & Alternative Markets What is the real difference between venture capital and private equity? Right Click Capital partner Benjamin Chong gives his view and provides a road map to how to spot unicorns. Read More
Adventures in Crypto Land Editorial, Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets Opinions on the sense of investing in cryptocurrencies are divided, so we decided to run a live experiment and see what a small crypto investment would involve. Read More
Securitisation and the Willingness to Repay Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance Securitisation was almost thrown out with the bathwater in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralised debt obligations (CDO), containing sub-prime mortgages, almost brought down the financial system. But since then the securitisation market has undergone significant change, both in regulations and attitudes towards risk. And in a world […] 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
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