Wouter Klijn - Investment Innovation Institute

Climate Risk, Elections and AGL

Vidhur Rangaswamy, Portfolio Manager, Tanarra

Creating Value Through Engagement

Listed markets are facing some strong headwinds, but by applying proactive engagement with companies investors can realise significant returns over the long term, Tanarra’s Vidhur Rangaswamy says.

ASIC Warns Super Funds Against Greenwashing

ESG, Risk and Regulation

ASIC warns super funds to remain true to label when issuing sustainable investment products and avoid greenwashing

Harsh Parikh, Head of the IAS Real Assets Research Program at PGIM

Tackling Inflation Through Real Assets

Economics, Private & Alternative Markets, Real Estate

Real assets have long been known to form a hedge against inflation and growth shocks. But not all real assets protect to the same degree, and investors now have climate change to worry about, PGIM’s Harsh Parikh says.

Wouter Klijn, Director of Content at the Investment Innovation Institute [i3]

We Need To Talk About ESG

Editorial, ESG

Did a recent speech by HSBC’s Global Head of RI Stuart Kirk provide a glimpse into an inherent hostility towards climate change policies among asset managers, or was it a plea to focus on investments, rather than exclusions?

ART Portfolio Construction post Merger

Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers

In this interview, [i3] Insights speaks with Ian Patrick, Chief Investment Officer of Australian Retirement Trust, about the implications of the recent merger for the fund’s investments and the way it constructs portfolios going forward.

Decarbonisation through Marine Assets

ESG, Private & Alternative Markets

Investing in marine assets is more akin to investing in infrastructure than in the shipping business, and it can help reduce the overall carbon footprint of a portfolio, Purus Marine’s Julian Proctor says.

Terry Charalambous, Head of Private Equity, AustralianSuper

Australian Super to Double PE Investment

Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets

AustralianSuper will double the money it currently has invested in private equity over the next two years, as part of a broader strategy to increase its holdings in unlisted assets.

Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, PFA Pension

When Risk Parity No Longer Works

Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners

While risk parity is a great concept, it doesn’t work in the current environment of low rates, rising inflation and macroeconomic turbulence, PFA CIO says.