No Retirement Solution Fits All Asset Allocation & Strategy, Retirement, Women in FinanceJacki 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
The Average Company Doesn’t Matter Asset Allocation & StrategyInvesting is about capturing the outliers, Baillie Gifford’s Tom Slater says. In a study of long term buy-and-hold strategies, he found that more than 50 per cent of returns were driven by just three companies in the portfolio. But how do you find these outliers? Read More
Mind The Gap Asset Allocation & StrategyChina Pacific Insurance Group CIO Ben Deng speaks to [i3] Insights about the challenges of closing the asset/liability gap in today’s low-yielding environment and shares his excitement about opportunities in Chinese private equity. Read More
Taking Risk Parity Inhouse at PSERS Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Risk and Regulation, Women in FinanceThe 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
HESTA Eyes Fundamental Aus Equities Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Equities, Women in FinanceAustralian pension fund HESTA is considering creating an internal fundamental Australian equities capability in an effort to address capacity constraints and drive company engagement. Read More
Asset Allocation is Key at VicSuper Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset OwnersVicSuper CIO Andrew Howard has positioned the fund’s portfolio to deal with low growth and higher volatility. “I’ll happily accept a lower return than what we might have received from real assets over the last 10 years to ensure we have enough ballast in our portfolio to deliver a smoother pattern of returns.” Read More
The Science of Hedging Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset OwnersIn the past, the decision about how to hedge has sometimes involved a bit of an educated guess, but a new paper aims to create rigour around this process. Read More
The Inherent Complexity of Investment Problems Asset Allocation & StrategyFinding solutions to complex problems is often not about more information, as we do in statistics, but about finding novel ways to combine existing information, Professor Carsten Murowski says. Unfortunately, this is where computers fail miserably. Read More
Future Fund Appoints Sue Brake in Deputy CIO Role Asset Allocation & Strategy, Women in FinanceAustralia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has appointed Sue Brake as Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Strategy. In this role, Brake will report to Chief Investment Officer Raphael Arndt. Brake will lead the Future Fund’s Portfolio Strategy function, which is responsible for undertaking macroeconomic and capital markets research and blending this with the bottom-up […] Read More
