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
Clarifying Sustainability Asset Allocation & StrategyHow deep do you look into a company to determine it is a sustainable business? Looking at the primary product is a good start, Hamish Chamberlayne of Janus Henderson says. 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
The Impact of Small Funds Asset Allocation & StrategySometimes 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 in Investor Returns Ahead Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset OwnersThe 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. Until recently, most financial strategies have relied on a handful of […] Read More
ASX Blockchain Targets Communication not Trading Asset Allocation & StrategyGerben de Zwart, Head of Quantitative Equities at Dutch pension behemoth APG, believes that the rise in the use of alternative datasets will see a divergence of manager returns, as they will have to pick and choose which databases to analyse. Read More
