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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NZ Super cuts benchmark return expectation on US valuation concerns

NZ Super cuts benchmark return expectation on US valuation concerns

A view that the US stock market is overvalued and equity risk premia will be lower over the long term has driven New Zealand Super to lower the return expectations for its reference portfolio following its recent five-yearly review of the benchmark. Co-chief investment officer Brad Dunstan also flags underweight commodity exposure as an area to address and explains why the fund remains sceptical of illiquidity premia despite seeing a growing case for private markets.

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Environmental engagement through benchmarking

Engaging real estate fund managers on their carbon footprint will be more easily implemented following the creation of a Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, the result of collaborative work by a group of 11 of the world’s largest pension asset managers and Maastricht University.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

NEST-eggs incubated ethically through sharia mandate

The UK’s National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has awarded F&C Asset Management and HSBC Global Asset Management the management of its ethical and sharia mandates.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

THE EVOLVING ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Technology has long been an essential behind-the-scenes partner in the financial services industry, providing theinnovative incremental advances necessary for the industry to upgrade and expand its services. Improvements in storage capacity and processing speed, for example, have had a profound impact on data management and transactional capabilities, with accompanying reductions in cost. Yet despite these

Most managers set to look outside the US

The managers most in demand by US investors are those with compelling presences in global and emerging markets’ equities, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, private equity and real assets.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Long-term risks and the human factor for fiduciaries

While risk for investment portfolios has been well-studied in the light of the financial crisis – if insufficiently before – the notion of long-term risk is still underexplored, according to Roger Urwin.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Restrict rebalancing to US stocks and bonds: Morgan Stanley

A more efficient way to rebalance highly diversified multi-asset portfolios – which contain illiquid assets – could be to restrict the rebalancing to exchanges between US stocks and US bonds only, according to new analysis by Morgan Stanley.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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