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What’s in Your Knowledge Stack? Part 3 — Management Consulting, Technology, and my Guilty Pleasures

By Ken Akoundi, PhD Introduction We have shared our second part of our Knowledge Stack, covering our daily reading on investments, well-being, world politics, pensions, and data visualization. Please find below the third installment (of three) of our Knowledge Stack. …

Pensions

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What’s in Your Knowledge Stack? Part 3 — Management Consulting, Technology, and my Guilty Pleasures
What’s in Your Knowledge Stack? Part 3 — Management Consulting, Technology, and my Guilty Pleasures
Pensions

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Apr 19

What’s in Your Knowledge Stack? Part 2 — World Politics, Pensions, and Information Visualization

By Ken Akoundi, PhD Introduction Earlier we shared the first part of our Knowledge Stack, covering our daily reading on investments and well-being. Please find below the second release of our Knowledge Stack. It includes our sources on pension knowledge, geopolitics, and one of our pet pleasures: Data Visualization — what…

Pensions

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What’s in Your Knowledge Stack? Part 2 — World Politics, Pensions, and Information Visualization
What’s in Your Knowledge Stack? Part 2 — World Politics, Pensions, and Information Visualization
Pensions

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Apr 11

What’s In Your Knowledge Stack? Part 1 — Daily Read, Investments, Well-being?

BY Ken Akoundi, PhD Introduction For over 23 years, Investor DNA went out to 25,000+ people, 6 days a week — that’s a whopping 170 MM emails. In that time, we developed an efficient process to read everything we thought worth reading to produce a news aggregation email with “worthy” links…

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What’s In Your Knowledge Stack? Part 1 — Daily Read, Investments, Well-being?
What’s In Your Knowledge Stack? Part 1 — Daily Read, Investments, Well-being?

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Aug 1, 2022

Before you decide to hire a risk manager, ask yourself…

By Ken Akoundi PhD & Brett Friedman Markets continue to push pensions and endowments to hire risk managers. And yet, most don’t have a clear idea of their exact role. They should. Ask 100 traders or portfolio managers what a risk manager is supposed to do, and you will get…

Long Term Investor

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Before you decide to hire a risk manager, ask yourself…
Before you decide to hire a risk manager, ask yourself…
Long Term Investor

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Feb 26, 2021

Investment office speed limit? Yes. It’s a thing.

By Ken Akoundi and kartik uchil “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Introduction It has been increasingly apparent that investment offices need to define certain basics to have a more efficient dialogue with vendors. …

Fintech

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Investment office speed limit? Yes. It’s a thing.
Investment office speed limit? Yes. It’s a thing.
Fintech

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Nov 30, 2020

The Great LP Technology Reset: GPs Ignore at Your Own Risk

By Ken Akoundi “Ignoring facts does not make them go away.” — Fran Tarkenton What’s happening? Technologically speaking, something has happened in the last few years. The long-term investor community has gone through a shift: they are upgrading their investment office technology out of the 1990s into the 2010s. What does this…

Technology

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The Great LP Technology Reset: GPs Ignore at Your Own Risk
The Great LP Technology Reset: GPs Ignore at Your Own Risk
Technology

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Nov 10, 2020

Es Tu Ubiquitous?

By Ken Akoundi and Kartik Uchil [0] “We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do.” - Ernest Moniz Introduction The Selfish theme has been on my mind, thinking of one of my earlier readings, Selfish Gene, where all genes by definition and for survival have to take…

Innovation

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Cognitionis, Es Tu Ubiquitous?
Cognitionis, Es Tu Ubiquitous?
Innovation

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Nov 8, 2020

To VaR is Human

Originally appeared in the June 2009 Edition of Journal of Risk (Defunct). Risk management is relatively simple in its essence: what is the probability of an event occurring, and, if it happens how badly will it hurt? However, if we consider how we estimate probabilities and losses, the answers to…

Risk Management

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To VaR is Human
To VaR is Human
Risk Management

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Oct 18, 2020

Knowing knowledge is a good start

By Ken Akoundi and Kartik Uchil “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates Knowledge in the investment office It has been increasingly apparent that investment offices need to define certain basic definitions to have a more efficient dialogue. …

Chief Investment Officer

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Knowing knowledge is a good start
Knowing knowledge is a good start
Chief Investment Officer

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Sep 30, 2020

50 Shades of Fail

Why tech implementations fail and how to avoid them. — By Ken Akoundi and Josh Smith “I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg “We are not perfect, nor should we pretend to be.” - Dr. Travis Bradberry Most institutional investors have been or will be exposed to a technology decision at some…

Chief Investment Officer

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50 Shades of Fail
50 Shades of Fail
Chief Investment Officer

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