Thoughts on all things due diligence, innovation and investment management

DV - Private Markets Due Diligence for Wealth Management

Private Markets Due Diligence for Wealth Management

In this blog, we share insights into how wealth management firms are building private markets capabilities and what role technology plays in their strategy.

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30 November 2016
Goals-based Investing OR Modern Portfolio Theory

Hansi Mehrotra, who leads DiligenceVault in Asia recently posed a question - Has Goals-Based Investing (GBI) Ruined Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT)? Especially for retail investors? Read it on CFA's Enterprising Investor blog What has driven...

Fear of Investing
30 October 2016
Fear of Investing

Investors are capable of rational decision making. But we often see investing behavior edge on the side of irrationality. If all investors were rational, we would not see severe drops in markets and / or...

Bunnyland
30 September 2016
Diligently Finding Alpha to Survive Bunnyland

These are challenging times for asset owners, particularly those with liabilities or obligations to fund with financial returns, such as pension funds, insurance plans, and endowments and foundations whose budget depends on the returns. With...

spider-as-web-developer
30 September 2016
You call it creepy, we call it client service

Historically, products traditionally won via a strong distribution and marketing, or the superior quality of the product; the client experience per se did not seem to be of focus. Increasingly the focus has shifted from...

Track-Record-Investing
30 August 2016
Track Record Investing

The blog is about Innovation in track record investing.

How I Met Team DiligenceVault
27 July 2016
How I Met Team DiligenceVault

Much like Ted Mosby's trials and tribulations in How I Met Your Mother, it's both fun and inspiring to sit down and draw up an info graphic in a single dimension that lays out the...

Second Machine Age
26 July 2016
Due Diligence In The Second Machine Age

The book review on 'The Due Diligence in the Second Machine Age' is contrasted with the adoption of due diligence technology in the asset management sector.

28 June 2016
Fruitful Active Investing

A summertime reflection on active and hedge fund investing, especially on the back of recent headlines covering large institutional investors exiting the hedge fund space, in addition to the investor narrative regarding fees and performance....

31 May 2016
How Do Firms Innovate?

We Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, But Somehow, We Lost…. Nokia’s smartphone division was recently acquired by Microsoft..