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With the growth in awareness of factor investing amongst institutional investors, asset allocators and fund managers are increasingly challenging the role such benchmarks can play in their investment strategies. However, with the market still young and new factors being developed rapidly, much more still needs to be understood about the market’s potential.

The Factor Investing Strategies report will bring together pension plan managers and investment officers to examine the merits of factor investing, its viability, factor rotation, timing and the combining together several factors into one strategy to achieve optimal risk exposures for maximized risk adjusted returns.

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SECTION 1

FACTOR INDEXES: SELECTION AND REJECTION CRITERIA

1.1 WHITE PAPER:
Know your benchmark: factor exposures and smart beta indexes

  • Peter Gunthorp, Managing Director, Research & Analytics, FTSERussell

1.2 INTERVIEW:
What drives asset owners to look at Factor indexes, and how do they select the right bench mark for them

Interviewer:

  • Noel Hillmann, Managing Director, Clear Path Analysis

Interviewee:

  • Paul Johnson, Trustee, State University Retirement System of Illinois

SECTION 2

FACTOR ROTATION & TIMING

2.1 ROUNDTABLE DEBATE:
Who should be responsible for factor rotation and is it best managed from the passive or active desk?

Moderator:

  • Noel Hillmann, Managing Director, Clear Path Analysis

Panellists:

  • Geoff Eliason, Chief Operating Officer, Peak Capital Management
  • Tarik Nbigui, Investment Strategist, Blue Sky Group
  • Christopher Sullivan, Chief Investment Officer, United Nations Federal Credit Union
  • Peter Gunthorp, Managing Director, Research & Analytics, FTSERussell

SECTION 3

MULTI-FACTOR INDEXES

3.1 INTERVIEW:
How can investors decide on the ‘right’ combination of factors and ensure their implementation into a well-diversified portfolio?

Interviewer:

  • Noel Hillmann, Managing Director, Clear Path Analysis

Interviewee:

  • Phil Tindall, Director, Investment, Towers

Peter Gunthorp

Managing Director, Research & Analytics / FTSE Russell

Geoff Eliason

Chief Operating Officer / Peak Capital Management

Christopher Sullivan

Chief Investment Officer / United Nations Federal Credit Union

Tarik Nbigui

Investment Strategist / Blue Sky Group

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