GSAM quant team profiling global TAA

Take risk, seek alpha: that's the message for Asian insurance companies and central banks from Robert Litterman, the New York-based head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management's quantitative resources group, who is touring the region. His trip is to raise the firm's profile, highlight various active management strategies, and also promote a textbook he and his team recently published, a weighty tome titled Modern Investment Management: an equilibrium approach.