Episode 23: Research Affiliates’ Rob Arnott Factor Investing, MarketFox In this podcast, MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli speaks with Research Affiliates founder and chairman Rob Arnott about his research into factors and addresses the criticism that AQR founder Cliff Asness had on his factor timing paper. Arnott makes the case you certainly can time factors and that to sell out of value now, while it […] Read More
Episode 22: India Avenue’s Mugunthan Siva Emerging Markets In this [i3] podcast, we take a look at India. [i3] Insights editor Wouter Klijn spoke with Mugunthan Siva, founder and managing director of India Avenue Investment Management, about the Indian economy, what Modi’s reforms mean for institutional investors and changing attitudes towards ESG issues. Siva spent a large part of his career as an […] Read More
Episode 21: Future Fund’s Stephen Gilmore Investment Strategy Former Future Fund Chief Investment Strategist Stephen Gilmore has had a career that is both impressive and dramatic, dealing with warlords in Tajikistan, working at AIG during its bail out and finally at Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund. MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli asks for his insights. Overview of Stephen Gilmore Podcast: 2:20 You […] Read More
Episode 20: Finder’s Fred Schebesta Alternatives, Fixed Income After successfully founding several businesses of which comparison website Finder.com is probably the most well-known, Fred Schebesta immersed himself in cryptocurrencies to see what all the fuss was about. Schebesta realised that the crypto space had many similarities to the early days of e-commerce and now runs a crypto exchange called HiveEx and is planning […] Read More
Episode 19: Thorney’s Alex Waislitz MarketFox, Private Markets Alex Waislitz is the founder and Chairman of Thorney Investment Group, one of Australia’s most successful private investment groups. After being lent $1.15 million, he went on to invest in micro and small caps and ultimately gathered a fortune of $1.39 billion. In this interview, Daniel Grioli takes Waislitz back to the start and dissects […] Read More
Episode 18: Rob Prugue Governance Rob Prugue is probably known best for his 15 years at the helm of the Asia-Pacific business of fund manager Lazard Asset Management. A role he left at the beginning of this year to ‘hang up his boots’, as he called it. Before Rob joined Lazard, he spent time at pension fund SAS Trustees amongst […] Read More
Episode 17: WTW’s Sue Brake Governance, MarketFox, Women in Finance In this podcast, MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli speaks with Sue Brake, Senior Investment Consultant for Willis Towers Watson, about the importance of governance in asset management and the real cost associated with bad governance. Daniel also manages to get Sue to play a game in which he asks her to respond to quotes by David […] Read More
Episode 16: Research Affiliates’ Mike Aked Factor Investing, MarketFox Investment consultant and MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli speaks with Mike Aked, who has just established the first Australian office for Research Affiliates in Melbourne. Mike Aked speaks about the reasons behind coming down under, asset allocation issues and responds to criticism from quant investors on the CAPE ratio. He also discusses the importance of simplicity […] Read More
Episode 15: Newfound’s Corey Hoffstein Factor Investing, Investment Strategy, MarketFox Corey Hoffstein is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Newfound Research, as well as an ETF Strategist. Hoffstein and his colleagues have produced some of the more innovative research papers in recent years, venturing into debates such as using style factors at a sector level, combining leverage and trend-following to reduce the scope of […] Read More
