ART’s Ian Patrick on Internalisation Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, In-house Management Australian Retirement Trust CIO Ian Patrick says internalisation of asset management is not on the cards just yet, but leaves the door open to revise the fund’s position on the matter in the future Read More
Pearce on Early Days of Internalisation Asset Owners, In-house Management When Unisuper decided to internalise asset management functions, it adopted an approach of ‘logical incrementalism’ rather than putting forward a grand vision for the future, CIO John Pearce says. Read More
Cbus Reaches Scale with Internalisation Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, In-house 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
It Is All About Scale In-house Management With several multi-billion-dollar mergers on the way, the Australian pension system is going through another round of consolidation. But even with all this merger activity, the role scale plays in the ability to compete on the global stage is often underestimated, Mark Wiseman says. Read More
PGGM Questions Over-diversification and Benchmarks Asset Owners, Factors, Quant & Systematic, In-house 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
In-housing Improves Outsourcing: Pearce Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, In-house Management Bringing select asset management functions in-house puts you in a better position to engage with external managers, UniSuper’s John Pearce says. Read More
Who Makes the Call on Competitiveness? Asset Allocation & Strategy, In-house Management If pension funds need to be efficient and competitive, then who decides which one is not? Read More
OPTrust: Internalising as a Matter of Risk Management Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, In-house Management Internalisation gives an edge in managing risk, OPTrust CIO says. Read More
Insourcing a Compelling Case: Ambachtsheer Asset Allocation & Strategy, In-house Management Insourcing asset management makes for a compelling case, as long as you are transparent to all stakeholders, Keith Ambachtsheer says. Read More