Cbus Mulls Higher Asia Tilt Emerging Markets, Equities, Women in Finance After more formally splitting out emerging markets from its global equities portfolio, Cbus is now considering whether it would benefit from a larger tilt towards Asia, which could incorporate a dedicated China exposure. Read More
BlackRock and The Meaning of Long Term Asset Allocation & Strategy, Private & Alternative Markets Since the launch of BlackRock’s Long Term Private Capital in 2019, the team has made a series of key investments. We caught up with André Bourbonnais to talk about the investment strategy and what his definition of long term investing is. Read More
Liability-matching Increasingly Difficult Insurance Insurers are facing increasing difficulties in running liability-matched investment strategies, according to Frontier. In the current low yield environment, insurers are better off to look for further diversification, including in unlisted assets. Read More
Equip Appoints New CIO Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers Equip has appointed Andrew Howard as the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of the fund. Howard joins from Hostplus, where he was Deputy CIO. Read More
IOOF and the Four Buckets of Opportunities Real Estate After the merger with ANZ Wealth and MLC, the property portfolio of IOOF has grown to almost half a billion in FUMA. Florence Chong speaks to Head of Property Simon Gross about the next steps for the portfolio and the impact of the global pandemic. Read More
The Relativities of Climate Risk Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, ESG Unisuper CIO John Pearce speaks to [i3] Insights about the fund’s approach to assessing climate risk using a shadow carbon price. Read More
Looking for Growth Equities Although many people today might think of growth stocks as companies such as Amazon, the investing style actually has its roots in discovering small emerging companies. We speak to MFS about opportunities in the current market. Read More
Climate Activism – Real Impact or Greenwashing? Editorial, ESG Engine No 1’s victory in the proxy war against oil giant ExxonMobil has been lauded as a momentous milestone for climate change activists and ESG investors. But critics remain sceptical about the motives Read More
Earnings Acceleration: Beyond Growth & Value Equities, Webinars Based on a recent global study by American Century Investments, we investigate the effectiveness of earnings acceleration on significant and durable excess returns for the equities portfolio. Read More