by Richard Waddington | Aug 5, 2022 | Portfolio Construction, Risk Management
We have often described how Sherpa Funds Technology helps Portfolio Managers generate better returns from their asset selection and convictions, and we have gone into some detail about how we do this, and what the Sherpa process involves. So now let’s look at the...
by Richard Waddington | May 18, 2022 | Asset Management, Portfolio Construction, Position Sizing, Risk Management, Stocks
Portfolio Managers need to balance many competing objectives and constraints while expressing their views across a large number of assets. This is a complex problem and it is hard to find a way of showing that the solution (the invested portfolio) meets these...
by Richard Waddington | Feb 11, 2022 | Portfolio Construction
In the world of Asset Management, the Portfolio Manager is King. I write ‘King’ as it remains a profession dominated by men: according to Morningstar, 86% of portfolio managers in 2021 were men, a proportion that has remained unchanged for 20 years. This blog is not...
by Richard Waddington | Oct 14, 2019 | Asset Management, Process Alpha
AI, IA and AM: Robots for Asset Managers Everybody has heard about Artificial Intelligence, or A.I. However for asset managers I.A., or Intelligence Augmentation, is far more important. A.I. has long been part of the public consciousness, more due to Sci-Fi than...
by Richard Waddington | Oct 14, 2019 | Asset Management, Portfolio Construction
Art vs Science – Have we progressed since 1959? In 1959, the British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow gave a lecture on how art and science separated people. It caused a huge furor which has continued to this day. Snow argued that people who sat on one side of...