Alex Antic: Data science across finance, academia and government

I chat with Alex on his experiences across a range of environments, the role of machine learning in Australia’s future and how to best deploy data science in academia and industry.

Nothing on this podcast is to be considered investment advice or a recommendation. No investment decision or activity should be undertaken without first seeking qualified and professional advice.

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Finland’s Elo: Larger equity allocations promise new media scrutiny

Finland’s Elo: Larger equity allocations promise new media scrutiny

As Finland's pension funds prepare to increase their equity allocations to unprecedented levels compared to global peers, they must also navigate a new and unfamiliar risk. Elo's chief investment officer Jonna Ryhänen explains the fund's investment approach going forward and how it will manage stakeholder and media scrutiny as they react to swinging volatility and returns.

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Do funds of hedge funds really add value?

This paper, by Serge Darolles of Lyxor Asset Management, and Mathieu Vaissie, research associate at EDHEC-Risk Institute,  looks at the performance of funds of hedge funds through the crisis, and introduces a return-based attribution model allowing for the full decomposition of funds of hedge funds’ performance.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Liquidity as an investment style

This paper by Yale School of Management Professors, Roger Ibbotson and Zhiwu Chen, shows that liquidity, as measured by stock turnover or trading volume, is an economically significant and distinct investment style, and introduces and examines the performance of several portfolio strategies.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Dodd-Frank Act will stand or fall on right people

At a Yale-hosted roundtable on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, professor of economics, Robert Shiller, said the success of the Act, and the agencies created to study aspects of the market, will depend on appointing the right people, who should be willing to take advice from his fellow economists. Click here to read more.mrec4inarticleinline

Harvard endowment hones managers

Harvard Management Company will increase manager concentration levels, look closely at commodities and real estate, and bring more assets in-house where appropriate, as it moves into fiscal year 2011 with an unchanged long-term asset allocation.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

New world order: Mercer offers its blueprint to cope

Mercer Investment Consulting has produced its foreshadowed paper on global equities, which urges clients to have a major rethink about their benchmarks and portfolio construction. Greg Bright spoke with the paper’s main author, Nick White.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Future Fund chief departs, alternative weightings increase

Four years after becoming its first employee, Paul Costello will leave his role as general manager of Australia’s Future Fund, saying “new leadership” was appropriate now that the A$87 billion ($81.2 billion) vehicle was beyond its “startup phase.” mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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