Future Fund Appoints Deputy CIO Asset Allocation & Strategy, Chief Investment Officers, Women in Finance The Future Fund appoints former Willis Towers Watson consultant Sue Brake as Deputy CIO. Read More
Moral Hazard in China is Breaking Emerging Markets, Fixed Income & Credit The Chinese government’s willingness to let private companies default on their debt is a sign of a maturing domestic market and helps price debt issuances more accurately, according to Fidelity International. Read More
No Westerner Really Understands China Asset Owners, Emerging Markets Out of all Australian Chief Investment Officers, John Pearce, CIO of Unisuper, is probably best placed to have a view on China. But his insights are not what you might expect. Read More
The Impact of Small Funds Asset Allocation & Strategy Sometimes it pays off for a pension fund to be small and nimble and one area where this is a clear advantage is in impact investing. Read More
APG Sees More Dispersion of Returns Ahead Asset Owners, Equities, Innovation The rise of alternative data sets is likely to create a wider dispersion of investors’ returns as the wide range of available data will lead investors to take more varying approaches than they have done so in the past, according to APG Asset Management. Read More
ASX Blockchain Targets Communication Asset Allocation & Strategy The Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) efforts in adopting blockchain are not aimed at trading securities over a blockchain system; it is looking to simplify the way it communicates with its end users. Read More
Stock Markets Are Increasingly Irrelevant Economics, Equities Stock markets are less about investing and more about collecting rents these days, Tim Hodgson of TAG says. He questions whether the distinction between public and private will survive with the rise of blockchain technology. Read More
Real Estate Debt Better Than Equity Fixed Income & Credit, Real Estate From a macroeconomic point of view, real estate debt looks better than real estate equity, PGIM CEO of Real Estate, Eric Adler, says. Read More
The True Cost of Divesting ESG, Risk and Regulation As part of his growing interest in climate change, GMO’s Jeremy Grantham researched what effect divesting the entire energy sector would have on a portfolio. Read More
