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Getting Machine Learning Back on Track

Five percent of your Portfolio will kill off the Rest: Sicilia

Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets

Globalisation is changing the very fabric of society, challenging cultural norms and testing the boundaries of social cohesion. But when it came to the economy, the increasing rate of technological breakthroughs would be of greater importance than globalisation, Sam Sicilia, Chief Investment Officer at Hostplus, argued at the [i3] Investment Strategy Forum last week. “Technology […]

Future Fund Replaces $14bn of Hedge Funds

Private & Alternative Markets

The Future Fund has replaced two-thirds of its hedge fund managers, or $14 billion worth of assets, in a four-year overhaul of its hedge fund portfolio, in an effort to reduce beta exposure.

Australia Needs to Export Tech, Not Talent: Farquhar

Private & Alternative Markets, Risk and Regulation

If Australia is to maintain its standard of living, it needs to make a greater effort to build a domestic technology industry, rather than allowing its well-educated professionals to be poached by overseas companies. Scott Farquhar, co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, told an audience of venture capital and institutional investors in early March that Australian […]

Mobiles Help Open Up Rural African Markets

Private & Alternative Markets

LGT Impact Ventures sees more companies using mobile applications to create distribution networks in remote African areas, creating new opportunities to services lower and middle income people.

True Equity Diversification is Hard: Block

Asset Allocation, Private & Alternative Markets

Diversification is good, but what assets will truly diversify you from equity risk, Michael Block, CIO of the Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund, asks.

Looking for Liquidity in PNG

Asset Allocation, Private & Alternative Markets, Risk and Regulation

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.

Infrastructure: Opportunities in a crowded market

Asset Allocation, Private & Alternative Markets, Strategy

Cyril Cabanes, Head of Infrastructure investments, Asia-Pacific, CDPQ, shares his views on the Australian and Indian markets, his take on disruption and the Canadian pension fund manager’s new in-house expertise in infrastructure development and operation. With all the debate surrounding driverless cars and the future of transportation, you could almost forget driverless trains have been […]

Seeking Alpha in Crises

Asset Allocation, Factor Investing, Innovation, Private & Alternative Markets

Crisis risk offset sleeves have drawn increasingly more attention from institutional investors, but what do these portfolios actually contain? With bond yields at historic low levels and interest rates rising many institutional investors are questioning whether the negative correlation between equities and bonds – the very foundation of the widely used ‘balance portfolio’ in the […]

TIAA looks at Expanding the ESG Universe

ESG, Private & Alternative Markets

TIAA Investments has ESG specialists embedded in their real estate and farmland investment teams. Now, the asset manager has set its sight on integrating ESG into its fixed income strategies.