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
A Grim Outlook for Emerging Market Countries Emerging Markets, Women in Finance Emerging markets looking to become the next manufacturing hub could miss out on the shift of cheap labour due to automation. Read More
The External Memory of Slime Innovation Organisms without a brain are able to externalise their memory to tackle complex tasks. Read More
Quants Part I: Are Quants the Chiropractors of Finance? Behavioural Finance, Factors, Quant & Systematic, MarketFox The danger of relying too much on quantitative models is the implicit belief that unless something can be measured and identified as a factor it doesn’t really exist, Daniel Grioli writes. Read More
First State Super CIO on State Plus Acquisition Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Risk and Regulation Damian Graham, CIO of First State Super, talks to [i3] Insights about the rationale behind the acquisition of State Super and the benefits to its investment strategy. Read More
Curing the Gaussian Brain Behavioural Finance, Risk and Regulation Emotions don’t stand in the way of sound financial decisions-making; they are crucial to it. Read More
TIAA looks at Expanding the ESG Universe ESG, Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance TIAA Investments has ESG specialists embedded in their real estate and farmland investment teams. Now, the asset manager has set its sight on integrating ESG into its fixed income strategies. Read More
Don’t Underestimate Technology-driven Deflation Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative Markets Technological advancement and global demographics may have changed the foundations of our global economy permanently, Principal Global Investors CEO says. Read More
