TCorp Revises Investment Strategy Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners TCorp has been on a merger journey that has seen it become a $107 billion juggernaut. In this exclusive interview, TCorp Chief Executive David Deverall talks about how this has changed not only the company’s ambitions, but also its investment strategy. Read More
E-commerce is Polarising Real Estate Real Estate It’s no secret online shopping is having a significant impact on the retail sector. But as more shops close down, the real estate sector is increasingly changing face as well, Aviva Investors Head of Real Estate says. Read More
AustralianSuper Scales up Machine Learning Asset Owners, Equities, Factors, Quant & Systematic, Innovation AustralianSuper started its first machine-learning strategy only two years ago, but already it has become a near core strategy and has a substantial amount of money running in it. Read More
The Illusion of Rationality Behavioural Finance, Factors, Quant & Systematic Not all problems are computable and there is good reasons to believe that many investment problems fall into this category, Professor Carsten Murawski of the Brain, Mind & Markets Lab says. Read More
Trafford-Walker to leave Frontier Advisors Women in Finance Fiona Trafford-Walker will depart Frontier Advisors on 6 December 2019, after 25 years with the asset consultant. Read More
Roadmap seeks to end Modern Slavery ESG A commission against modern slavery has called upon the finance sector to end slavery and provides a blueprint of how to achieve this in a report launched at the United Nations. Read More
No Retirement Solution Fits All Retirement, Women in Finance Jacki Ellis has been given the task to spearhead First State Super’s retirement strategy from an investment perspective. We speak to Ellis about the complexity of the problem, the challenges of CIPRs and the need for customisation. Read More
Does Your ESG Policy Breach Fiduciary Duty? ESG, Factors, Quant & Systematic There are limits to how much of an ESG tilt you can introduce to your portfolio before it becomes more risky than a market index. But what is too much? Harin de Silva of Analytic Investors has found a way to measure this. Read More
In Defence of Life-cycle Strategies Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Innovation, Retirement Australian Catholic Super CIO Michael Block addresses some of the criticism of life-cycle strategies and argues that we should take a closer look at the concept behind it. “To always place a member who is 20 years old with a 60-year old member in the same strategy is clearly ridiculous,” he says. Read More
