In Search of the Super Team Innovation, Women in Finance What makes an investment team more successful than others is not only about skill and talent, but also about how team members engage with each other and the broader organisation they operate in. In other words: the team’s culture Read More
ART Reshuffles Investment Team Appointment, Asset Owners ART has made a series of changes to its senior investment team, which includes the appointment of a single Head of Investment Strategy for all of the fund’s portfolios Read More
Insignia Sees Benefits of Scale Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers After bedding down the acquisitions of ANZ P&I and MLC, Insignia Financial CIO Dan Farmer is now looking to benefit from its larger size by participating in more co-investments Read More
Private Equity and the ‘S’ in ESG ESG, Private & Alternative Markets Social issues in private equity are not only important from a risk perspective, but can also contribute to the value of a business if managed properly, IFM Investors says Read More
Valuation Infrequency is not Stability Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Women in Finance As debate over valuation practices around unlisted assets is heating up, TCorp’s Tanya Branwhite points to the danger of mistaking valuation infrequency for stability Read More
UniSuper Lifts Unlisted Assets Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Private & Alternative Markets UniSuper is on track to increase its allocation to unlisted assets by about 5 per cent due to a healthy pipeline of deals and the merger with Australian Catholic Super, John Pearce tells [i3] Insights. Read More
Tiptoeing Back into EM Debt Emerging Markets, Fixed Income & Credit The year 2023 is shaping up to be a more positive year for emerging market debt and Capital Group’s Harry Phinney has cautiously increased allocations to several of the market’s regions. Read More
Bessembinder Slams Mean Variance Analysis Asset Allocation & Strategy, Equities Professor Hendrik Bessembinder urged investors to be suspicious of stock market analysis that relies on averages, including mean-variance optimisation. Read More
HESTA Opts for Digital Advice Route Asset Owners, Retirement Digital advice tools are likely to form part of the solution to the advice challenge in relation to retirement. We speak with HESTA’s Josh Parisotto about the experience over the past 18 months since the launch of the tool, Future Planner. Read More
