Financial Crisis Archives - Investment Innovation Institute

Insights articles categorised 'Financial Crisis'

Pharma Unlikely to Strike Gold with Vaccine

Future Fund Concerned about the Future

The Future Fund is concerned about the medium to long-term outlook for investments as the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated existing vulnerabilities and trends within the global political landscape and financial markets.

Courting Controversy in Times of Crisis

Equities, Financial Crisis, Women in Finance

Every crisis harbours opportunities for those willing to look deeper at the underlying drivers. We talk to MFS Investment Management about some of the most interesting contrarian trades during this pandemic.

Bev Durston, Managing Director, Edgehaven

Distressed Cycle Could Be Different

Financial Crisis, Fixed Income & Credit, Women in Finance

Many fund managers have been raising capital for distressed debt opportunities in anticipation of a spike in defaults. But Bev Durston, Managing Director at alternative assets advisory firm Edgehaven, has some reservations about the scale of the opportunity set out there.

Future Fund Sees Tough Period Ahead

Asset Owners, 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 […]

Long or Short Volatility?

Editorial, Financial Crisis

If most diversified, multi-asset portfolios are short volatility, should institutional investors build in an allocation to long-volatility strategies for defensiveness?

Stephen Coltman, Senior Investment Manager, Aberdeen Standard Investments

Targeting Negative Equity Correlations

Factors, Quant & Systematic, Financial Crisis, Private & Alternative Markets

When bonds no longer offer defensiveness, where do you look for portfolio protection? Perhaps it is time to set an explicit negative equity correlation target, Aberdeen Standard Investments says.

SunSuper’s Liquidity Waterfall

Asset Owners, 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.

Michael Hasenstab, Chief Investment Officer of Templeton Global Macro

Defensiveness Through Currencies

Financial Crisis, Fixed Income & Credit

In an environment where bonds yields are close to zero, where do you look for defensiveness? Currencies are one answer, Franklin Templeton’s Michael Hasenstab says.

John Livanas, Chief Executive Officer, State Super

State Super Takes Stock

Asset Owners, Financial Crisis

State Super was one of the top performing funds in Australia during the March quarter, largely due to its decision to have tail risk strategies in place. We talk to CEO John Livanas about the fund’s approach and the changed world post-pandemic.