Since the emergence of “Modern Portfolio Theory” and the “Capital Asset Pricing Model” in the late 1960s, institutional investors have taken a quantitatively driven approach to portfolio construction, looking to create portfolio diversification and obtain better risk-adjusted returns by balancing their asset-class exposures. This journey has seen several important advancements in thinking about how to optimally achieve desired results.
Funds that want to take the total portfolio approach first need to get the total portfolio view. To do that they not only need data – and lots of it – but a rock-solid understanding of exactly how they’re going to use it.
Nikko lends marketing support to Tyndall
(Pictured: David Collins)
Nikko Asset Management is further integrating its business support functions with that of its Australian subsidiary, Tyndall Asset Management, with the establishment of a new position of global group marketing and communications.
David Collins has joined Nikko in Tokyo from Hartford Financial Services Group. He was formerly a television producer and has worked in Asia for more than 20 years in both the media and financial services.
Tyndall has been working on sharing its investment capabilities with its parent since the new management under CEO Mike Davis took over last year. For instance, Tyndall is offering some of its Australian strategies to Japanese investors and similarly looking to offer Nikko’s international strategies in Australia.
Tyndall last year bought the alternative debt firm Causeway Financial, which was run by Davis and Tim Martin, and appointed the duo to the senior positions at the firm – Davis as CEO and Martin as head of alternatives.
