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.
The twin forces rewriting the rules of investing
Portfolios built for the old world will be severely tested as emerging forces rewrite the rules of investing. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that geopolitical and macroeconomic upheaval, together with the disruption wrought by AI, should force asset owners to rethink the structure and composition of portfolios.
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Giant Texas plan defers performance pay for execs
Chief investment officer of the US$81 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Britt Harris, has offered to forego an estimated $167,935 in performance incentive pay for 2008. At the most recent board meeting, the TRS board accepted Harris’ offer and also voted to defer all remaining investment division performance pay until the fund experiences a
US endowment slams consultants
The $4 billion Claremont University Consortium (CUC) has criticised the service small endowment funds in the US are receiving from their investment consultants, labelling the solutions as “cookie cutter, boilerplate answers”. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Reducing risk not risky asset classes: AP3
Sweden’s Third National Pension Fund, AP3, has rejigged its long-term strategic asset allocation and increased its exposure to alternatives. Kristen Paech talks to chief investment officer Erik Valtonen about the reasons behind the changes. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Full transparency of big hedge fund positions from now on: AIMA
The peak body for the global hedge fund industry, the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has backed a proposal mandating the full transparency and disclosure of ‘stematically significant’ positions and risk exposures held by hedge funds to their national regulators. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Markowitz has plan for gaining insights into complex instrument
At the age of 82, modern portfolio theorist, Harry Markowitz still has a lot to say about the state of play in investment management.
SWF investors in Citi to face dilemma if US govt ups its stake
Greater US government ownership of Citigroup could bring a dilemma to one of the troubled bank’s major stakeholders, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), according to US financial services consultancy Aite group. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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