State Super Appoints Lisbeth Rasmussen to Board Asset Owners, Women in Finance State Super has appointed its former Chief Investment Officer, Lisbeth Rasmussen, to its board Read More
TCorp Eyes Partnership Model Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Innovation In this preview on the [i3] Podcast with CIO Stewart Brentnall, he defines what TCorp looks for in a strategic partnership. Read More
Is the Trend Really your Friend? Factors, Quant & Systematic Wells Fargo AM’s Wai Lee discusses the considerations that go into implementing an allocation to trend following strategies in a multi-asset portfolio and finds that small changes can have big consequences. Read More
Real Estate Profile – Frontier Advisors Part II: Retail Real Estate, Women in Finance E-commerce has changed the retail property sector forever, but how will this play out for shopping malls in Australia is not quite clear yet. Frontier Advisors visited the US at the end of last year, to get an idea of where we might be heading. Read More
Crisis Risk Offset seems to work, but… Editorial, Financial Crisis, Innovation Now that we are in a real time crisis, how are crisis risk offset strategies behaving? Early results are encouraging, but by no means conclusive. Read More
The Importance of Board Education Asset Owners, ESG Tim Mitchell has been called the ‘Mr. Zero’ of New Zealand Super, having been involved before the first employee was appointed. In this interview, Mitchell talks about setting up the governance framework of the fund and the importance of board education. Read More
Addressing the Transition to a Low-carbon Economy ESG, Women in Finance Addressing climate change risks should not simply be about measuring carbon emissions, but about future-proofing business models, Aberdeen Standard Investments’ Danielle Welsh-Rose says. Read More
Looking for the Perfect Hedge Editorial, Factors, Quant & Systematic What type of hedge would you put in place to protect your portfolio in the current malaise, if you had the benefit of hindsight? Read More
Markets Could Stabilise as Quarter End Nears Equities, Financial Crisis, Pacific Region As we are heading towards the end of the quarter, the chances are that stock markets will stabilise somewhat since many pension and other multi-asset funds will need to buy equities to get back to target weights. Read More
