State Super Names New CIO Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers State Super appoints former Deputy Chief Investment Officer Charles Wu as its new CIO, after the departure of Gary Gabriel at the end of last year. Read More
Monetary Policy Through the Ages Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Economics Christian Super CIO Mark Rider, who spent a previous life at the RBA, says we are entering a period not unlike the first few decades after the World War II. Read More
Ping An on Factors in China Chief Investment Officers, Emerging Markets, Equities, Factors, Quant & Systematic The Chinese stock market is driven by different quantitative factors than those in the US and Europe, Ping An China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Deputy CIO said. Steve Zhang speaks to us about the companies quant and machine learning strategies. Read More
State Super Strengthens AI Governance Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Factors, Quant & Systematic State Super has established an Academic Oversight Body, to ensure good governance of the fund’s activities in machine learning. Read More
Vision Super Wants ESG Action Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, ESG Vision Super CIO Mike Wyrsch would like asset owners to take the lead on climate change and this means engagement needs to be about more than just conversations. Read More
Future Fund Sees Tough Period Ahead Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Financial Crisis, Women in Finance The Future Fund sees a challenging environment ahead as it ends the year flat. The Future Fund expects to see a challenging and volatile environment in the future and believes that the factors that have driven the strong performance in the past might not be there any longer. “We do think that returns are going […] Read More
LGIAsuper on Retirement Products Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Retirement While long-term expected returns are likely to be low and short-term risks remain high, developing retirement products is a tricky exercise, especially with younger members in mind, Troy Rieck, CIO of LGIAsuper, says. Read More
SunSuper’s Liquidity Waterfall Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Financial Crisis Sunsuper CIO Ian Patrick talks about the pension fund’s experience dealing with the pandemic, tackling liquidity demands from member switching, early release of super and falling equity markets. Read More
Cbus Reaches Scale with Internalisation Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Leadership & Management CBus has finalised the majority of its internalisation program. We speak to Deputy CIO Brett Chatfield about the fund’s experience and the launch of its latest quantimental strategy. Read More