Insights

Behavioural Science and Pandemics

Future Fund appoints Arndt as CEO

The Future Fund has appointed its current Chief Investment Officer, Raphael Arndt, as its new Chief Executive Officer, following departure of David Neal.

Arti Prasad (l) and Jessica Gilbert (r) of New Zealand Super

Pricing Climate Change at NZ Super

Asset Owners, ESG, Women in Finance

NZ Super has developed a framework to help the investment team think about pricing climate change and adjust its valuation methodologies.

Sarah Shaw, Global Portfolio Manager & Chief Investment Officer at 4D Infrastructure

Infrastructure in Times of Stress

Private & Alternative Markets, Women in Finance

Listed 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.

RMS Titanic, Harland & Wolff Collection, National Museums NI

Why a Crisis need not be a Tragedy

Editorial, Risk and Regulation

Tragedies happen, not when one thing goes wrong, but when many things go wrong at the same time. Can we learn lessons from the sinking of the Titanic and apply them to our portfolios as the pandemic wreaks havoc? Teik Heng Tan explores this issue.

Matt Cameron, General Manager of Risk at HESTA

HESTA appoints GM Investment Risk

Asset Owners, Risk and Regulation

HESTA has appointed a new General Manager of Investment Risk, as the fund continues its plans to internalise certain asset management functions, including Australian equities investments.

Portfolio Construction Post Crisis

Editorial, Financial Crisis

As the pandemic starts to slow down across the world, how has the crisis affected investors’ approaches to portfolio construction?

Antifragility in Real Estate

Opinion, Real Estate

In times of crisis, can real estate add an element of antifragility to a portfolio, Norman Miller and Guy Tcheau ask?

Future Fund Limits Drawdown

Asset Owners, Financial Crisis

The Future Fund has managed limit the impact of falling equity markets on its portfolio by selling out of unlisted assets.

Associate Professor Kenneth Merkley of the Kelley School of Business at the University of Indiana

Beating Human Biases with Robo-analysts

Factors, Quant & Systematic

Algorithmic stock analysis models, or robo-analysts, outperform their human counterparts, largely because they are less conflicted and avoid biases, a new study has found.