Adding Sustainability to Total Portfolio Management at PGGM Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, ESG, Women in Finance Stephanie Weston has had a diverse career, working in investment roles across super funds, insurers, and central banks.. She is now drawing on the experience gained from these roles to contribute to Dutch pension fund PGGM’s development of total portfolio management thinking Read More
Rest Starts Trading Global Equities Internally Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Equities Rest has started trading global equities internally with a new $300 million mandate Read More
ACC’s Dynamic Asset Allocation Approach Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Insurance Dynamic asset allocation is a valuable source of diversification when running an liability aware investment portfolio, according to ACC’s David Iverson Read More
AMP Moves DAA to be Mostly Systematic Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners AMP has evolved its DAA approach to be largely systematic in nature. We speak with Stuart Eliot about the implementation of the systematic DAA model in the investment portfolio Read More
Managing AustralianSuper’s Ballast in the Boat Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Women in Finance While allocations to equities and bonds can vary over time, as market conditions change and risk increases or decreases, mid-risk assets are intended to be the steady, ‘ballast in the boat’ for AustralianSuper. We speak to Jessica Melville about the evolution of this asset class Read More
Investing for the Long Term with LGT Crestone Asset Allocation & Strategy, Private Wealth LGT Crestone recently completed a comprehensive overhaul of its long-term, structural outlook and assessed the impact of this on its asset allocation strategy. We speak with Matthew Tan about the changes Read More
Growth of Credit ‘Slightly Unnerving’ Asset Allocation & Strategy, Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative Markets The emergence of private credit as a new asset class is a positive development, but the rapid growth of it could spell some trouble down the road, Craig Dandurand says Read More
YFYS Takes Risk Management Tools Away Asset Allocation & Strategy, Chief Investment Officers, Private Wealth The introduction of the YFYS performance test and the subsequent move by super funds towards more passive strategies has put these funds in the difficult position where they are less able to protect members from large market draw downs, Bellmont’s Michael Block says Read More
Cbus Starts Phase II of DAA Program Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners Cbus Super has embarked on the second phase of its DAA program, extending it to include relative value trades Read More