Christina Qi: High Frequency Trading – Then and Now

I chat with Christina about her experiences starting her own firm dealing with high frequency trading strategies, and her observations about how high frequency strategies have evolved, where they are now, and where they may be going in the future.

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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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Clarifying the concept of risk management

Scientific director at EDHEC-Risk Institute Lionel Martellini, reminds investors of the difference between risk management and risk measurement, highlighting there are some limits to risk diversification.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Real estate or infrastructure? Evidence from conditional asset allocation

This study by Tobias Dechant and Konrad Finkenzeller from the University of Rengensberg’s BS Institute of Real Estate, reassesses the role of real estate in the asset allocation processs, by considering a wide range of alternative and/or seemingly related assets, paying particular attention to infrastructure. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Old rules still apply for equity risk premium

The equity risk premium has come in for some renewed analysis in the past couple of years as investors attempt to reconstruct their portfolios to defend against any future fat-tail events.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

The case for leveraged loans

Leveraged loans are the senior-most debt obligations of non-investment grade corporate borrowers and are an attractive source for uncorrelated returns, argue David Frey and Julian Qin, of Highbridge Principal Strategies.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

In defence of hedge funds of funds

Funds of funds, particularly hedge funds of funds, have suffered outflows in recent years as pension funds reassessed their cost alongside risk and return characteristics. The conventional wisdom is that all types of FoFs are at death’s door.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Cambridge to lift Asian presence with Beijing office

Cambridge Associates, the US-based asset consultancy, is to open a Beijing office – its third office in the Asia Pacific region – and is sending a private equity specialist there from London.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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