Insurers Talk Climate Risks Editorial, ESG In March, APRA released its long-awaited update on climate risks. We asked insurers how far they are in implementing risk modeling and what risks concern them the most. Read More
The Importance of Stakeholder Management Asset Owners, ESG VicSuper CIO Andrew Howard speaks about how stakeholder management is not simply about piling on the information. If boards receive too much data, it all becomes just noise, he says. Read More
Funds SA Consolidates After Rapid Growth Asset Owners, Leadership & Management, Women in Finance Funds SA has grown rapidly in recent years and now stands at over $30 billion in assets. CEO Jo Townsend speaks to [i3] Insights about the next phase of growth, whether insourcing is on the cards and what it means to be an Adelaide-based investment organisation. Read More
Managing Other People’s Money ESG Investment governance tries to codify how to put safeguards around managing other people’s money, Michael Drew and Adam Walk say. Read More
Back to the Beginnings of MMT Economics, Fixed Income & Credit Professor Bill Mitchell is one of the key developers of Modern Monetary Theory. [i3] Insights visited Professor Mitchell in Newcastle to discuss how the theory came to be and what it says about government debt, inflation and the Green New Deal. Read More
No Data Lakes Please! Factors, Quant & Systematic, Innovation Gideon Smith believes machine learning will offer investors plenty of opportunities to create a special sauce for their investment process. But if you think it is simply about capturing large amounts of data, then you’ve got it wrong, he says. Read More
Taking Risk Parity In-house at PSERS Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Financial Crisis, Innovation, Women in Finance The US$ 55 billion Pennsylvanian pension fund PSERS embraced risk parity in an effort to address the asset allocation challenges laid bare by turmoil during the global financial crisis. Read More
The Future of Fund Management Innovation As fund managers face increasing cost pressures from governments, regulators and institutional investors alike, the future of this industry might be in engaging directly with the end investors. OpenInvest founder Andrew Varlamos believes technology will be the ultimate enabler of this vision. Read More
Adventures in Crypto Land Editorial, Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets Opinions on the sense of investing in cryptocurrencies are divided, so we decided to run a live experiment and see what a small crypto investment would involve. Read More