Student: Do the data management systems running inside pensions and SWFs connect through APIs? Me: Good question. In 99% of cases, no. The data is piped through a complex system of bespoke, manual and thus fragile processes. Student: Wait…...
Read moreWhy Agent Based Models Are Coming to Finance
Financial markets are akin to a complex networks of roads moving capital from one place to another. Investors respond to crises like drivers respond to traffic jams: over-reacting, making matters worse. Why agent based models are coming to...
Read moreDropping the Alternative from Financial Data Lexicon
Just as organic food was referred to by our grandparents as food, alternative data was just data. But with IoT and data tools improving, stories like this will become routine, and we’ll end up dropping the alternative again from our...
Read moreRethinking Alternative Data for Institutional Investors
Read on. Rethinking Alternative Data in Institutional Investment, The Journal of Financial Data Science Ashby Monk (@sovereignfund)
Read moreConsolidation at Funds SA
I’ll keep saying this: The future of pensions is being redefined in Australia (not Canada). Here’s yet another professional investor maturing and emerging. Funds SA Consolidates After Rapid Growth, Investment Innovation Institute...
Read moreIntegrating ESG to Investment Decision Making
Investors still struggle to integrate ESG into their decisions. Why? 1) They can’t evaluate the ESG data quality, and 2) they don’t know how to link ESG to financial performance. In my latest paper, we develop tools to help investors...
Read moreMalaysia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Investing in Tech
Malaysia’s Khazanah appears set to bolster its technology investing chops. I expect this may also mean bolstering or expanding its SF office. Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund appoints SenseTime founder to board as it seeks to expand tech...
Read moreAngola’s Sovereign Wealth Fund New Lease on Life
Angola’s SWF has a new lease on life, albeit smaller, which is still noteworthy given all the shenanigans over the prior decade. Angola Plans to Continue Wealth Fund After $2 Billion Withdrawal, Bloomberg Ashby Monk (@sovereignfund)
Read morePanama’s Sovereign Wealth Fund – One of the Newest
An update on one of the newest SWFs on earth (Panama) in an article with an update on the oldest SWF on earth (Texas). The interview by AI-CIO is here.
Read moreAshby Monk’s Tweet Storm on Consultant Misaligned Incentives
Power of External Strategic Partnerships
Ashby Monk’s latest paper on knowledge management in institutional investment focuses on the power of external strategic partnerships to help fill internal knowledge gaps. Written with CIO of PSP Eduard van Gelderen.
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