Do Members Benefit from Tax-Efficient Portfolios? Risk and Regulation, Women in Finance Do members really benefit from tax-efficient portfolios, or are they simply deferred without any real gain? Read More
Interested in Blockchain? There is an ETF for that MarketFox MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli is back from the United States and tells of his adventures in ETF land. Read More
APG – Pushing the Limits of Factor Investing Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners Dutch pension fund APG has been running factor-based strategies for more than two decades, but the fund’s Head of Quantitative Equity suspects it’s on the eve of a very big change. 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
Investing Alongside Machines Behavioural Finance, Innovation In his new book ‘Cyborg’, Simon Russell explores how investment teams and artificial intelligence could come together. And it is not as scary as you might think it is. Read More
Introducing the [i3] Podcast Asset Allocation & Strategy This year we kick off with a brand new service: The [i3] Insights Podcast. Learn more about how you can access our podcasts conveniently. Read More
Searching for the Rolls Royce of ETFs Innovation, MarketFox MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli is off to the United States to attend a conference on ETFs and in this article he makes the case for active managers to create high-quality, state of the art, ETFs before somebody else does. Read More
Infrastructure: Opportunities in a Crowded Market Asset Allocation & Strategy, Infrastructure Cyril Cabanes, Head of Infrastructure investments, Asia-Pacific, CDPQ, shares his views on the Australian and Indian markets, his take on disruption and the Canadian pension fund manager’s new in-house expertise in infrastructure development and operation. With all the debate surrounding driverless cars and the future of transportation, you could almost forget driverless trains have been […] Read More
The Curious Case of Cash Financial Crisis, Risk and Regulation, Women in Finance Research by Whitehelm Capital shows that some pension funds are stretching the definition of cash, adding less liquid and even credit instruments in these options. Cash is probably not the most sexy asset class in institutional investing, if you can call it an investment at all, and so you would not expect much controversy around […] Read More