Insights

First State Super enters China’s Domestic Market

The Problem with Factor Investing

Asset Allocation & Strategy, Women in Finance

Factor investing has seen a stellar rise in popularity in recent years, but Bev Durston, Managing Director of Edgehaven, says not all that glitters is gold.

Seeking Out the Opportunities from Climate Change

ESG

Building a sustainable future provides some good opportunities for emerging growth, Hermes’ Andrew Parry says.

Survival of the fittest: How Indexing Will Save Active Management

Asset Allocation & Strategy

The vast inflows into passive strategies in the past few years might be exactly what the active management industry needs, Natixis’ David Lafferty says.

Quants Part II – Quants and Market Timing

Factors, Quant & Systematic, MarketFox

In part two of the series ‘Quants and Market Timing’, MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli draws attention to the point that the tools available to us for measuring determine how we phrase questions and hence influences the outcomes.

Validating Ideas Through Strategic Partnerships

Asset Allocation & Strategy

Jeffrey Scott, former Chief Investment Officer of the Alaska Permanent Fund, speaks about how strategic partnerships helped him transition from a treasury role to a CIO.

The Trouble with Measuring Free Stuff

Economics, Fixed Income & Credit

Critics have argued that classical economic measures fail to capture the growth and productivity of today’s technology-driven world, but what does the US Bureau of Labour Statistics think about this?

Not Worried About Volatility? You Should Be

Risk and Regulation

Multi-strategy funds have not faced easy market conditions, so why are they gaining in popularity among institutional investors?

The Search for Green Income

ESG, Women in Finance

The sectors with the highest median dividend payout ratios are also those that include the largest polluters. Is it possible to build an income strategy that takes ESG into account?

The Beginning of MarketFox

MarketFox

Six months into the collaboration between MarketFox and i3 Insights, we caught up with Daniel Grioli to hear how his blog came into existence and what he has been working on since leaving LUCRF.