Given the continued volatility and inflationary pressures in the financial markets, many family offices are looking to shift their asset allocation to help provide better performance and lower overall risk. With pressures mounting, we wanted to get a sense of how global family offices are answering the innovation question for not only their current technology …
How can leaders in asset management and strategic asset allocators help improve the collective intelligence at their organizations by leveraging the power of diversity? In our latest episode of the Improving Alpha podcast, Michael Oliver Weinberg speaks with Gitanjali Swamy, PH.D., Senior Legislative and Policy Advisor, Massachusetts State Senate, Managing Partner, IoTask on how leaders …
For those working on asset allocations in today’s volatile markets, are there ways to differentiate between sustainability and ESG? Furthermore, how do you create a harmonization in a triple bottom-line approach that deals with job growth and creation, taking care of your employees and the planet, and ensuring profitability? In this episode, Michael Oliver Weinberg, …
When considering some of the richest people in history, you may immediately think about names like Buffet, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller and more. However, there are two others that could be pulled from the pages of history that helped to shape the financial landscape that investors navigate today. They are Jacob Fugger and Jay Gould. In …
In the world of finance, there are many discussions around the topics of economic challenges or inequality when it comes to how asset managers or asset owners navigate the market. The volume certainly increases on this theme around bonus time when performance incentives are being paid out despite market volatility and declining returns. In this …
Allocators today can’t predict the future state of the market, especially given recent volatility, needing to rely on several viewpoints and data benchmarks to reach their goal. This is true in the case of LACERA where Jonathan Grabel and his team manage over $70 billion in AUM. In this episode of Improving Alpha – Innovation …
How does a sovereign wealth fund navigate the current investment waters for over 35 million Australians, in relation to governance, investment decisions, technology, data and more? We take a deep dive into the Future Fund and how a blank paper mentality helps drive innovation on a total portfolio level basis. In this episode, Michael Oliver …
As allocators continue to navigate these volatile investment waters, endowments find themselves wrestling with questions around sustainability, ESG investing, innovation, and how to pass along their strategies for success to the next generation. In this inaugural episode, Michael Oliver Weinberg, co-founder, Improving Alpha Podcast Series, is joined by Jeff Mindlin, Chief Investment Officer of ASU …
