Insurers Increase Diversification of Portfolios Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative Markets A Goldman Sachs survey of insurance investment professionals shows insurers are taking on more risk as confidence in growth assets increases. Read More
Playing Defence, Without the Portfolio Cost Private & Alternative Markets, Retirement, Women in Finance Investors looking to buy protection for their portfolios might be better off selling it, Parametric’s Raewyn Williams says. Read More
Philanthropy and Factors at MACP Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies has implemented a new framework that enables the fund to manage factors as a separate asset class. Read More
A Game of Currency Asset Allocation & Strategy Game theory can be a useful tool in trading currencies, William Blair says. Read More
Funds Management Models for Superannuation Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Women in Finance Former State Super CIO Lisebeth Rasmussen has seen in-house asset management fall in and out of favour. In this article she gives her views on the matter. Read More
The Active vs Passive Debate Part III Asset Allocation & Strategy, MarketFox Welcome to part three, the final part of my attempt to take up the Charlie Munger challenge. In case you’ve forgotten, the challenge was for me, an active investor, to argue the case for indexing better than a passive investor. Read More
Future Fund Reveals Vision for Brave New World Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers For too long fund managers have been able to include returns that requires little skill, Future Fund CIO says. Read More
The Active vs Passive Debate Part II Asset Allocation & Strategy, MarketFox In part II of the active versus passive series, Columnist and MarketFox blogger Daniel Grioli looks at eight reasons why active management often disappoints Read More
Improvements in Technology Help Future Fund Assess Alpha Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers Technological advancement enables Future Fund to isolate the true alpha component in returns, CIO says. Read More
