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...
by Richard Waddington | Oct 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Robo-Advisors, 2/3rds of the way there… It’s 2018, Robo-cop doesn’t yet exist, but Robo-Advisors are very much ‘in’. And it’s not hard to see why. Businesses like US-based Wealthfront and UK-based Nutmeg promise to build anyone a portfolio that suits their risk...
