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Ashby Monk – Innovation in Institutional Portfolios (Capital Allocators, EP.196)
FromCapital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry
Ashby Monk – Innovation in Institutional Portfolios (Capital Allocators, EP.196)
FromCapital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry
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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
May 24, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Dr. Ashby Monk is the Executive and Research Director of the Stanford University Global Projects Center. Ashby was named by CIO Magazine as one of the most influential academics in the institutional investing world. His current research focuses on the design and governance of institutional investors, with specialization on pension and sovereign wealth funds. Ashby’s most recent book, The Technologized Investor, is a practical guide showing how institutional Investors can gain the capabilities for deep innovation by reorienting their strategies and organizations around advanced technology. He also recently released a significant white paper on transparency and innovation for institutional investors for the Biden Administration. Our conversation follows-up an early podcast, Episode 29, which is replayed in the feed. This time around, we discuss the power of asset owners, issue of transparency, need for innovation and obstacles to achieving it, how and when to create change, examples of climate work at New Zealand Super, the Australian Super Funds, and Canadian Pension funds, and Ashby’s handful of technology start-ups focusing on these challenges. Learn More Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google Follow Ted on Twitter at @tseides or LinkedIn Subscribe Monthly Mailing List Read the Transcript
Released:
May 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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