Soft Brexit Could See Office Take Off Real Estate Real estate markets have not priced in the likelihood of a soft Brexit, or even a no-Brexit, which could potentially see growth in UK commercial real estate rather than a contraction, according to Nuveen. Read More
Future Fund Appoints Deputy CIO Asset Allocation & Strategy, Women in Finance The Future Fund appoints former Willis Towers Watson consultant Sue Brake as Deputy CIO. Read More
Moral Hazard in China is Breaking Emerging Markets, Fixed Income & Credit The Chinese government’s willingness to let private companies default on their debt is a sign of a maturing domestic market and helps price debt issuances more accurately, according to Fidelity International. Read More
No Westerner Really Understands China Asset Owners, Emerging Markets Out of all Australian Chief Investment Officers, John Pearce, CIO of Unisuper, is probably best placed to have a view on China. But his insights are not what you might expect. Read More
The Impact of Small Funds Asset Allocation & Strategy Sometimes it pays off for a pension fund to be small and nimble and one area where this is a clear advantage is in impact investing. Read More
In Search of Temperament V MarketFox Our exploration of the ideal investor temperament continues with our fifth post in this series. We’ll focus on the reasons why investors need to think probabilistically and how to do it. Read More
APG Sees More Dispersion of Returns Ahead Asset Owners, Equities, Innovation The rise of alternative data sets is likely to create a wider dispersion of investors’ returns as the wide range of available data will lead investors to take more varying approaches than they have done so in the past, according to APG Asset Management. Read More
ASX Blockchain Targets Communication Asset Allocation & Strategy The Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) efforts in adopting blockchain are not aimed at trading securities over a blockchain system; it is looking to simplify the way it communicates with its end users. Read More
Stock Markets Are Increasingly Irrelevant Economics, Equities Stock markets are less about investing and more about collecting rents these days, Tim Hodgson of TAG says. He questions whether the distinction between public and private will survive with the rise of blockchain technology. Read More
