Campbell Harvey: Factor investing beyond the snake oil

I chat with Campbell, Professor of Finance at Duke University, on the future of quantitative finance, academic journals, model fitting and the intellectual fallacies within inference.

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Returns, resilience and reinvention: What private markets’ top brass are worried about

Returns, resilience and reinvention: What private markets’ top brass are worried about

Senior executives from some of the world's largest private market managers gathered in Berlin this month with a collective understanding: managers who move slowly on AI face not just weaker returns but the risk of owning businesses that have been competitively displaced before they can exit.

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Denmark’s ATP creates new overlays to manage future bond equity correlation

ATP's Christian Kjær explains the rationale behind two new overlays to better navigate the risk of future correlations between bonds and equities which wrong footed the risk parity investor in 2022.

Embracing difference: Why investment teams must be cognitively diverse

Tough investment environments, pressure on costs and competition for jobs are creating pressure on investment teams to perform better. And investment professionals need to jettison some antiquated approaches to decision making to keep pace with social norms. Cognitive diversity in teams has been hailed as a saviour.

NBIM’s RI report showcases benefits of transparency

Risk-based divestments increased returns on Norges Bank Investment Management's equity portfolio by 0.07 per cent in 2023. Measuring the impact of its investment decisions, reported in NBIM's latest RI Report, is part of a concerted drive for greater transparency by the manager of Norway's Government Pension Fund Global.

CalSTRS’ Ailman talks GFC, climate risk and worrying levels of US debt

After 23 years in charge, CalSTRS departing CIO Chris Ailman has more stories from the investment frontline than most. He shares personal recollections of the GFC, his fears of the scale of the climate emergency and why worrying levels of US debt hold new risk and opportunity for investors.

Brunel keeps wary eye on markets and raises manager reporting duties

In a recently published review, Brunel Pension Partnership vows to “turn the screws” on managers and its holdings via increased RI expectations and warns that rosier economic forecasts of lower interest rates and tamed inflation may not come true.

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark makes process improvements

The Global Pension Transparency Benchmark, a collaboration between Top1000funds.com and CEM Benchmarking, ranking pension funds globally on their transparency of disclosures, will make a number of process improvements to the 2024 survey.

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