UK Pension Fund Nest Mulls Active Strategies Asset Owners, Equities, Women in Finance For much of its history, UK pension fund Nest took a broad, systematic approach to equity investing, but recently it decided to add an active, thematic strategy to the portfolio. We speak with Rachel Farrell about the fund’s evolving philosophy on active vs passive strategies Read More
Who Benefits From Fixed Income Index Construction? Fixed Income & Credit Who are fixed income indices really serving, borrowers or lenders? Allspring Global Investments provides its view on the question Read More
Hugh Murray Takes over as Interim CIO of Future Fund Appointment, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers Ben Samild is to leave the Future Fund to take up a role with an unnamed Middle Eastern institutional investor Read More
ANZ Admits Misleading Government Over $14bn Bond Trade Fixed Income & Credit, Risk and Regulation ANZ faces $125 million fine over misleading the AOFM in a $14 billion government bond issuance Read More
CEFC and National Reconstruction Fund Will Not Overlap in Deals Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Women in Finance Although both the NRF and the CEFC have a mandate to provide capital to renewable and low-emission technology companies, they will not compete for deals Read More
Rest Super: ESG Engagement Has Real Financial Impact Asset Owners, ESG, Women in Finance Rest Super sees a real financial impact from ESG engagement and plans to broaden it to unlisted and sovereign assets Read More
Mitigating Risk from US Equity Concentration is Hard – Future Fund Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Equities Addressing risks from concentration in the US equity market is hard, as it requires taking a bet on the direction of the technology sector, Future Fund CIO says Read More
Supporting Conservation on New Zealand Islands ESG, Leadership & Management NZ Nature Fund was established to support the conservation efforts on a number of NZ islands. We speak to trustee Jonathan Eriksen about the fund’s investment approach and efforts to eradicate pests Read More
Governments Need to Back Early-stage Investment in Energy Transition ESG, Infrastructure, Private & Alternative Markets Governments need to support early-stage investments into new energy transition technologies, since the key driver behind the transition is innovation, Macquarie Group CEO says Read More
