The [i3] Global Investment Strategy Forum 2019 was held on 16 and 17 October at the ParkRoyal on Pickering in Singapore. The forum welcomed delegates from around the region, including China, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand and Timore L’este.

Part (ii) of the i3 Global Investment Strategy Forum 2019 gallery. The [i3] Global Investment Strategy Forum 2019 was held on 16 and 17 October at the ParkRoyal on Pickering in Singapore. The forum welcomed delegates from around the region, including China, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand and Timore L’este.

In collaboration with the Thinking Ahead Institute (TAI), the [i3] Asset Owner Roundtable focused on governance and investment models for sovereign, pension, insurance and endowment funds. The institute’s Roger Urwin and TCorp CIO Stewart Brentnall led a discussion on how to tackle different models, culture and governance.

In this Equities luncheon, we looked at decision making for complex problems. Asset managers are well aware of the sheer complexity they face in solving investment problems and have developed sophisticated models steeped in the traditions of advanced statistics to help them. Many of these models emphasise amassing large amounts of information to produce ever […]

The Pacific Islands Investment Forum (PIIF) brings together the provident funds, superannuation funds, sovereign wealth funds, trust funds, and social security administrations from across the Pacific. The annual CEO meeting was successfully hosted by the Samoa National Provident Fund at Apia in September 2019. The meeting also marked the passing of the PIIF chairmanship from […]

The [i3] Asset Allocation Forum 2019 was held on 22 and 23 August in Bowral NSW. Participants discussed good governance, private markets, the perils of complexity and more.

The Role of Super Funds in Financial Stability During the global financial crisis it became clear that some financial entities are ‘too big to fail’ as the ramifications of their demise simply were too great to be absorbed by the system. As superannuation funds have grown larger over the years, their combined assets under management […]

The [i3] Fixed Income, Credit & Currency Forum (FICC) was held on 19 June, 2019 at the Intercontinental Double Bay. Delegates heard from the Future Fund about its total portfolio approach and where fixed income sits in there. We discussed private loans and emerging market debt. And finally addressed portfolio construction issues and ESG.

The [i3] Insurance Investment Forum was held on 18 June, 2019 at the Intercontinental Double Bay. Delegates from both APRA-regulated and government insurance companies came together to discuss the challenges of the current market environment, portfolio construction and the risks of technological change to investments.