True Equity Diversification is Hard Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Equities Diversification is good, but what assets will truly diversify you from equity risk, Michael Block, CIO of the Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund, asks. Read More
APG – Pushing the Limits of Factor Investing Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners Dutch pension fund APG has been running factor-based strategies for more than two decades, but the fund’s Head of Quantitative Equity suspects it’s on the eve of a very big change. Read More
Looking for Liquidity in PNG Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Pacific Region, Private & Alternative Markets Running a pension fund in Papua New Guinea comes with its own unique challenges. Managing liquidity in a mostly illiquid market is one of them, NASFund CIO David Brown says. Read More
First State Super enters China’s Domestic Market Asset Owners, Emerging Markets, Equities First State Super sees opportunities in mainland China markets and has been awarded a QFII licence. Read More
Few Funds Use Academic Factors: Van Gelderen Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers Outgoing APG Group CIO Eduard van Gelderen says that few managers implement factors that bear any resemblance to how they are described in academic studies. Read More
First State Super CIO on State Plus Acquisition Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Risk and Regulation Damian Graham, CIO of First State Super, talks to [i3] Insights about the rationale behind the acquisition of State Super and the benefits to its investment strategy. Read More
State Super Embraces Machine Learning Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Innovation State Super has embraced machine learning in its investment process, making it one of the first Australian asset owners to do so. Read More
Philanthropy and Factors at MACP Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies has implemented a new framework that enables the fund to manage factors as a separate asset class. Read More
Funds Management Models for Superannuation Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Women in Finance Former State Super CIO Lisebeth Rasmussen has seen in-house asset management fall in and out of favour. In this article she gives her views on the matter. Read More