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. Read More
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. Read More
Validating Ideas Through Strategic Partnerships Asset Allocation & Strategy, Innovation 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. Read More
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? Read More
Not Worried About Volatility? Risk and Regulation Multi-strategy funds have not faced easy market conditions, so why are they gaining in popularity among institutional investors? Read More
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? Read More
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. Read More
Few Funds Use Academic Factors: Van Gelderen Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers Outgoing APG Group CIO Eduard van Gelderen says that few managers implement factors that bear any resemblance to how they are described in academic studies. 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
