Gavin Pearce, Chief Risk Officer at icare, has worked in both the public and private sector, in life insurance and general insurance. During this luncheon, hosted by PIMCO, he shared some of his experiences with attendees and laid out his thoughts on how Enterprise Risk Management works in both public and private sectors.

Co-hosted with Macquarie Investment Management, this luncheon featured behavioural finance consultant Simon Russell. By combining concepts from behavioural finance and artificial intelligence, Simon identifies ways investment professionals can create “cyborgs” decision-making processes that integrate individual, team and machine thinking.

The 4th annual [i3] Portfolio Construction Masterclass was successfully organised in Fiji, in partnership with the Pacific Provident Fund and Social Security Forum (PPFSSF). It provided education and investment management knowledge to trustees and fund executives of provident, trust, sovereign and insurance funds in the Pacific Island region. This initiative is part of [i3]’s on-going […]

[i3] Insights is pleased to be the media partner of the Australian Tech & Venture Capital Roundtable, organised by Square Peg, Blackbird and AirTree. This exclusive roundtable showcased some of Australia’s most outstanding tech founders, including Scott Farquhar, Co-founder & CEO of Atlassian; Paul Bassat, Founder of seek.com as well as key investors in venture capital. […]

The Investment Innovation Institute’s Equities & Equity Alternatives Forum 2018 was held on 27 – 28 February 2018 at The Intercontinental Hotel in Double Bay. During the forum we took a look at the increasingly popular Crisis Risk Offset or Risk Mitigation model and heard from US pension fund CalSTRS how they implement it in […]

The Investment Innovation Institute’s annual Christmas reception was held at the NSW Parliament House in Sydney on 6 December 2017.

The [i3] Asset Management Leadership Roundtable 2017 was held at Parliament House in Sydney on 6 December. During this discussion we addressed the changing landscape for asset consultants, who are confronted by industry consolidation and increasingly sophisticated clients.

The Fixed Income, Credit & Currency Forum was held on 8 November at the Intercontinental Double Bay. We took a look at the composition of cash options, discussed green bonds, heard from QSuper on how it views duration and found out the workings of a mysterious Babylonian tablet, containing an early form of trigonometry.

The Pacific Provident Funds and Social Security Forum (PPFSSF) is an organisation of Provident Funds, Superannuation Funds, and Social Security Funds charged with the prime responsibility of managing and growing the retirement savings of their members. Every two years the CEOs of each member Fund come together for the PPFSSF CEO Forum. This Forum is […]