Behavioural Science and Pandemics Behavioural Finance, Financial Crisis During a pandemic people change their behaviour radically and this change affects the global economy. Can behavioural sciences help in developing sensible policies? Read More
Portfolio Construction Post Crisis Editorial, Financial Crisis As the pandemic starts to slow down across the world, how has the crisis affected investors’ approaches to portfolio construction? Read More
Future Fund Limits Drawdown Asset Owners, Financial Crisis The Future Fund has managed limit the impact of falling equity markets on its portfolio by selling out of unlisted assets. Read More
Unlisted Assets Should be Valued More Often Financial Crisis, Private & Alternative Markets, Real Estate Asset owners should value their unlisted assets more frequently in the current market environment, according to Willis Towers Watson. Read More
Crisis Risk Offset seems to work, but… Editorial, Financial Crisis, Innovation Now that we are in a real time crisis, how are crisis risk offset strategies behaving? Early results are encouraging, but by no means conclusive. Read More
A Different Kind of Disruption Editorial, Financial Crisis, Innovation Is there an upside to the widespread disruption we see as the coronavirus rips through the world population? Teik Heng Tan explores the intersection of chaos and innovation throughout history. Read More
Markets Could Stabilise as Quarter End Nears Equities, Financial Crisis, Pacific Region As we are heading towards the end of the quarter, the chances are that stock markets will stabilise somewhat since many pension and other multi-asset funds will need to buy equities to get back to target weights. Read More
The Impact of Liquidity on Pension Funds Financial Crisis, Risk and Regulation Liquidity has become a concern for many institutional investors, who are faced with the trade war aftermath, an oil price war and the COVID-19 outbreak. Based on his experience as Head of Enterprise Risk at the Canadian investment manager AIMCo, Dr Guan Seng Khoo provides here a framework for stress testing liquidity. Read More
APRA Concerned over Super Fund SAA Asset Allocation & Strategy, Editorial, Financial Crisis Current developments caused by the coronavirus has the regulator worried about funds’ ability to maintain their strategic asset allocation Read More