McKeand Moves to UK Pension Fund Asset Owners, Equities AustralianSuper’s former Head of Equities, Innes McKeand, has left to join UK Pension Fund USS, where he will establish a new global equities team. Read More
Beware of the SPAC Frenzy Equities, Private & Alternative Markets SPAC investments have become all the rage, with almost as much money raised in the US as traditional IPOs. But not every investor is set to make money from these vehicles. ‘Caveat Emptor’, Sameer Jain warns. Read More
Reviewing Defensive Assets at CFS Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners Colonial First State’s Jujhar Toki speaks to [i3] Insights about the fund’s current review of defensive assets. Read More
Managing Volatility in EMD Emerging Markets, Fixed Income & Credit Emerging market debt is a volatile asset class, but there are ways to manage this volatility through thoughtful portfolio construction, Aviva Investors’ Aaron Grehan says. Read More
It’s a New World Order Asset Owners, Financial Crisis, Women in Finance The coronavirus pandemic has caused a paradigm shift in the investment environment which has large consequences for portfolio construction for many years to come, the Future Fund said. Read More
State Super Names New CIO Asset Owners State Super appoints former Deputy Chief Investment Officer Charles Wu as its new CIO, after the departure of Gary Gabriel at the end of last year. Read More
Monetary Policy Through the Ages Asset Owners, Economics Christian Super CIO Mark Rider, who spent a previous life at the RBA, says we are entering a period not unlike the first few decades after the World War II. Read More
CRE Managers Find Little Success Abroad Opinion, Real Estate With an estimated historical failure rate in excess of 50 per cent, investors are better off flipping a coin than putting their dollars with an Australian CRE manager going abroad, Rohan Shan writes. Read More
HESTA appoints GM of Portfolio Construction Asset Owners HESTA has appointed Michael Sommers as General Manager Portfolio Construction & Risk. Sommers joins from Frontier Advisors, where he was Head of Alternatives and Derivatives for the past seven years. Read More
