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Forty young, vibrant, and ambitious pension, sovereign wealth, insurance, foundation, and endowment investment managers (mostly) under the age of 40.
In this decade of upheaval, so much of what we take for granted in the institutional investment arena desperately needs to be viewed through fresh eyes.
In the race for asset gathering, have fund managers fixed their sights on pastures new?
Many institutions are looking for a new approach and are adopting risk parity and other de-risking strategies, but many of these approaches reflect faulty applications of theories.
aiCIO's editorial team speaks about fresh talent at the world's largest asset owners.
"There is much we could learn from physics," says James Montier of GMO, commenting on the flaws of the financial world.
Investors are focused on the wrong objective, trying to keep up with indexes as opposed to trying to minimize volatility by limiting drawdowns, asset owners and managers say.
As ‘risk-free’ becomes a misnomer, one Japanese investor has turned to an alternative safe-haven to ride out the storm.
Some of the world's largest investors have signed up to take a bigger stake in China's growing economic boom.
The UK is ripe for infrastructure investment, and if its own pension funds don’t step up to the plate, others will.
"The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'this time it's different.'" – Sir John Templeton