[The adoption of alternative investment options inside client portfolios has been driven by greater accessibility and the search for higher returns, better diversification, and enhanced risk mitigation. Additionally, the growing sophistication of investors and their desire for personalized strategies are pushing advisors to explore alternative options. While this trend is geared to ultimately benefit the […]
[Sometimes the search for alpha and risk management takes us on interesting journeys. This is especially so when we experience that some of our established strategies of diversification and performance management might not be working as well as we would have thought. Knowing that you can be fooled by randomness in your journey, you realize […]
[Most investors, even many professionals, run from volatility or build walls to protect from it, seeing it as a major form of risk. Others get prepared and run to volatility with a specialized toolkit to capture alpha from it, seeing it as a major form of opportunity. This never-ending investment given of volatility has spawned […]
[With the current global disruption in the markets, there is a growing call for enhanced market intelligence and heightened attention to price trend analysis. Advanced analytics can help investment managers navigate an increasingly volatile marketplace by helping them identify and validate early any developing negative trend reversals to avoid and position themselves for positive trend support […]
[The growing trend of clients demanding more personalization from their advisors and investments has the wealth management industry grappling with the operational tension that creates. As many wealth managers use a range of pre-built model portfolios by their home office investment teams to ensure proper allocation guidelines and compliance, there is a growing need to […]
[With growing uncertainty, markets are under pressure rapidly rotating through new opportunities and risks that seemingly are emerging almost weekly. This market dynamic of accelerating price trends is alternatingly creating strong positive tailwinds and dangerous rip currents that can pull down a manager’s performance. Identifying and validating price trend reversals – both positive and negative […]
[The private markets investment landscape today provides an excellent example of how the asset management industry has been in continuous evolution to meet client needs and offer access to new investment opportunities. Once only the realm of institutional investors, structural shifts underway in the private markets arena from the traditional closed-end, drawdown limited partnership structure […]
[Digital assets, like most emerging asset classes, have been on an inexorable march through fits and starts, scandals and successes, to be acknowledged and accepted as a legitimate financial asset class and major positive disruptor for many industries across the planet. Through the trials, tribulations, and noise, a very strong pattern of maturity has been […]
[With the accelerating rate of the financial industry’s ongoing evolution and new product development, it is interesting to explore how this process of creation and innovation happens. Far from being a mystical process or coming from the realm of scary smart people in R&D departments or initiatives, innovation is more of a human process driven […]