Finance is all about forecasting. The investor with the earliest insight into future returns reaps the biggest rewards.
The stakes are even higher for Sovereign Wealth Funds. They invest a country’s current assets to generate returns that will help future generations prosper. Here’s how today’s best forecasting practices help a Fund secure a better tomorrow for its citizens.
Industry: Financial Services
Location: Global
Size: >$100 billion in assets
About: This Sovereign Wealth Fund is a global long-term investor in a broad range of private and public asset classes.
All we do is forecasting. We take a view about a company or an asset and decide to invest money on its based on a forecast of the asset cash flow generation in the future. Improving our forecast capacity tends to materially improve our performance.
– Manager at Sovereign Wealth Fund
Design a program to teach best-practice forecasting techniques to analysts in departments ranging from Private Equity to Real Estate.
Take an evidence-based approach to the Fund's talent-development project, using the same tools and techniques that helped the Good Judgment Project win the largest-ever geopolitical forecasting competition.
Set up a controlled experiment with three levels of training (no training, online training only, or in-person workshop), and combine each approach with forecasting practice on Good Judgment Open.
Participants who attended an in-person workshop in addition to practice forecasting achieved training objectives far more often than did analysts who received no formal training.
“[Good Judgment] help[ed] us understand people’s biases and see the distribution of views to better check and inform the average [forecast].”
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