Risk Mitigation Helps OPTrust Limit Losses Asset Owners, Financial Crisis, Private & Alternative MarketsCanadian fund OPTrust employs a risk mitigating portfolio to help protect the fund from the worst of the volatility that can be experienced in growth assets, and it has proven quite resilient during the recent turmoil. Read More
When Chickens Come Home to Roost Asset Owners, Private & Alternative MarketsChicken farms and almond plantations are perhaps not the first things that come to mind when thinking about investments. But these agricultural investments have proven to be quite a find for First State Super. Read More
Eyeing Distressed Investments Financial Crisis, Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative MarketsAsset consultant bfinance surveys distressed and opportunistic strategies and finds frantic capital raising activity. But not all strategies are equal, as the pandemic means a lack of track records and increased competition in some sectors. Read More
Hedging with Hindsight at VFMC Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets, Risk and RegulationWhat if you could design your hedging strategy with 20/20 hindsight? We asked VFMC’s Mark Aaron how to best address this question. Read More
Infrastructure in Times of Stress Private & Alternative Markets, Women in FinanceListed infrastructure offers both liquidity and defensiveness, but how has it held up under the turmoil caused by COVID-19? 4D Infrastructure’s Sarah Shaw explores. Read More
Mind The Gap Asset Allocation & Strategy, Fixed Income & Credit, Private & Alternative MarketsChina Pacific Insurance Group CIO Ben Deng speaks to [i3] Insights about the challenges of closing the asset/liability gap in today’s low-yielding environment and shares his excitement about opportunities in Chinese private equity. Read More
How to Spot a Unicorn Opinion, Private & Alternative MarketsWhat is the real difference between venture capital and private equity? Right Click Capital partner Benjamin Chong gives his view and provides a road map to how to spot unicorns. Read More
Adventures in Crypto Land Editorial, Innovation, Private & Alternative MarketsOpinions on the sense of investing in cryptocurrencies are divided, so we decided to run a live experiment and see what a small crypto investment would involve. Read More
Securitisation and the Willingness to Repay Private & Alternative Markets, Women in FinanceSecuritisation was almost thrown out with the bathwater in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralised debt obligations (CDO), containing sub-prime mortgages, almost brought down the financial system. But since then the securitisation market has undergone significant change, both in regulations and attitudes towards risk. And in a world […] Read More
