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Forty young, vibrant, and ambitious pension, sovereign wealth, insurance, foundation, and endowment investment managers (mostly) under the age of 40.
Asset owners are a learned group but do, occasionally, need help. One Harvard Business School professor, focusing his talents in the low-volatility investing space, is providing just that.
Julian Robertson’s Tiger Cubs started some of the aughts’ most impressive hedge funds. Are David Swensen’s Yale Pups, increasingly in control of other foundations and endowments, the current decade’s equivalent?
When you're investing outside the mainstream, it's not just what you're doing that counts, it is what everyone else is doing too.
The line between the two camps are blurring; can both 'outsourced' models survive and will the client even end up the victor?
"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