Ashby Monk

Organisational Design

Why asset owners should not outsource innovation

Asset owners have traditionally counted on external asset managers to pursue bold innovations rather than stretching their limited internal resources to do so. But leading Stanford academic Ashby Monk has warned in a new paper that this long-standing model is distilling short-term thinking in pension management.

Darcy SongFebruary 13, 2026

FIS Stanford 2024

‘Built different builds different’: Embracing neurodiversity in investment

Embracing neurodiversity might not just be the key to unlocking collaboration, creativity and productivity in investment teams, it could also be the key to better returns, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard.

Simon HoyleOctober 3, 2024

Featured Story

Operational excellence as critical as asset allocation for success

Asset allocation is often nominated as the most important element in long-term investment performance. But the Fiduciary Investor s Symposium at Stanford University heard that no investment strategy or process can operate in a vacuum – it can’t happen effectively without operational excellence.

Simon HoyleSeptember 29, 2023

Technology

Why asset owners need to become ‘technologized investors’

The use of technology has the potential to transform the investment industry bringing down the cost of asset management, exponentially increasing innovation and building more resilient and adaptive portfolios. So investors need to move now to keep pace with the change. Amanda White talks to Herman Bril.

Amanda WhiteFebruary 28, 2023

Asset Allocation

The five characteristics of a future portfolio: CAIA

The traditional 60/40 portfolio allocation is no longer enough. The opportunity for alpha is not gone, but the low-hanging fruit has long been harvested, and the path toward higher absolute returns has gotten far more nuanced according to a new report from the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA)

Sarah RundellApril 5, 2022

Investor Profile

First State: superannuation’s evolution

Most of Australia’s retirement system is still just heading towards investing with scale for both accumulation and pension phase. The A$70 billion First State Super and CIO Damian Graham are already there. So what do its investments look like?

October 25, 2018