In this final event for 2019, we hosted the Reserve Bank of Australia, addressing the important issue of “The Role of Super Funds in Financial Stability”. As superannuation funds have grown larger over the years, their combined assets under management is more than Australia’s annual GDP and larger than the market capitalisation of the stock […]

Professor Bill Mitchell is one of the key founders of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). MMT has received much attention globally. It has been promoted by Democratic US politicians, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to explain why governments should drive the transition to a low carbon economy and why they can afford to do so. Japan has taken […]

The [i3] Global Property Forum, held in association with Atchison Consultants, was hosted in Melbourne on 13th November 2019. It covered issues relating to property portfolio construction and risk management for institutional investors, with in-depth commentary on European real estate, alternatives as well as private debt.

The [i3] Pension Portfolios Forum was held on 31 October 2019 in Melbourne. Participants discussed the merits of lifecycle funds, the feasibility of CIPRs and heard from Cbus Chief Executive David Atkin about how their member profiles influence their available options for retirement products.

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 […]