The Science of Hedging Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Financial Crisis, Risk and Regulation In the past, decisions about hedging have sometimes involved a bit of an educated guess, but a new paper aims to create rigour around this process. Read More
NZ Super Maps Capabilities of Partners Asset Owners, Pacific Region, Women in Finance New Zealand Super has mapped the expertise of its strategic partners against its research agenda in order to extract full value from its relationships. 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
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
NASFund CIO Cleared of Charge Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Pacific Region David Brown, the CIO of PNG’s national pension fund NASFund, has been cleared of all charges against him after the Court found that no credible case had been produced against him. Read More
UTOS – A Tribute to Justina Sau Asset Owners, Pacific Region, Women in Finance Justina Sau, Chief Executive Officer of the Unit Trust of Samoa, passed away in October this year. In this article, we celebrate the life of an extraordinary business person and trailblazer for Samoan women. Read More
Future Fund Sells Illiquids Ahead of Volatility Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Financial Crisis The Future Fund sells $5 billion in illiquid assets as it prepares for more volatility ahead. Read More
PKA raises Questions about Factors Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Factors, Quant & Systematic Danish pension fund PKA was one of the first institutional investors to implement a factors-based investment approach. But the recent dismal performance of these strategies is testing the faith of the fund, Deputy CIO Michael Flycht says. Read More
PGGM Questions Over-diversification and Benchmarks Asset Owners, Factors, Quant & Systematic, Leadership & Management Most asset owners are over-diversified and rely too much on market capitalisation weighted benchmarks for them to deliver optimal long term pension benefits, Dutch pension fund PGGM says. Read More
