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
[i3] Insights: Most Read in 2020 Asset Owners, Editorial 2020 will always be remembered as the year of COVID-19, devastating entire sectors of the economy, from hospitality to airlines. But looking at the most popular topics of the year, it is clear that the pandemic wasn’t the only thing on investors’ minds. Read More
bfinance Sees Interest in Securitisation Rise Private & Alternative Markets Investors worldwide are increasingly looking to securitised debt strategies as an alternative to absolute return bond funds, new research by bfinance finds. Read More
APRA to Issue Notices over Heatmap Risk and Regulation APRA says eight trustees may have failed in their obligations to members in relation to 10 separate MySuper products, which means they could possibly have breached the SIS Act. Read More
Cbus Sees Trouble for Smaller Funds Asset Owners, Risk and Regulation Cbus CEO Justin Arter expects to see more consolidation among smaller funds as the proposed super reforms might cause these funds to rethink their purpose in life. Read More
Value in Emerging Markets Emerging Markets, Equities Value investing has experienced a resurgence in the past four weeks. We talk to T Rowe Price’s Ernest Yeung about what this means for emerging markets. Read More
A Guide to ESG in Australasia ESG, Guides In this guide, we aim to give a brief overview of some of the key trends and developments in ESG in Australia and New Zealand. We address the unique circumstances of Australian economy, climate change, modern slavery and more. Read More
ACC Names Head of DAA Asset Owners, Insurance New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has appointed David Iverson as Head of Dynamic Asset Allocation for its NZ$46 billion portfolio. Read More