[i3] Insights - Investment Innovation Institute

Asset Consulting and Consolidation

Kheng Siang Ng, Head of Fixed Income, APAC, State Street Global Advisors

FDI Eyes Chinese Bond Market

Institutional investors are gearing up to buy into the Chinese government bond market, as more global indices are adding these bonds, SSGA says.

Helen Rowell, Deputy Chair at APRA on the superannuation industry

APRA questions Insurers’ Risk Management

Insurance, Risk and Regulation

Prudential regulator APRA has questioned the robustness of insurers’ risk management frameworks, following unexpected business interruption claims stemming from the coronavirus pandemic

James Fraser-Smith, Future Fund’s head of unlisted infrastructure and timberland

Future Fund on Infra and Pandemics

Asset Owners, Infrastructure

The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on infrastructure assets, both positive and negative. Florence Chong speaks with the Future Fund’s James Fraser-Smith about the effect on airports, data centres and renewable assets.

Debt Cost and Decarbonisation Could See Property Sales | Mahdi Mokrane, Head of Investment Strategy and Research, PATRIZIA

The Rise of Alt Property

Private & Alternative Markets, Real Estate

Alternative property types have become mainstream asset classes in the US and real assets investment firm PATRIZIA expects a similar trend to now unfold in Europe. We speak to Mahdi Mokrane to gain a deeper understanding of the drivers behind this trend.

Wouter Klijn, Director of Content at the Investment Innovation Institute [i3]

Your Future, Our Super

Editorial

The Your Future, Your Super performance test is not a measure of performance at all. It is a guarantee of mediocre outcomes, Wouter Klijn, Editor of [i3] Insights writes.

Nik Kemp, Head of Global Real Assets, AustralianSuper

AustralianSuper and the Energy Transition

Asset Owners, ESG, Infrastructure, Private & Alternative Markets

The Energy Transition offers much more than investing just in renewable energy, AustralianSuper says. And with the Green New Deal taking off in the US, the fund is now forging ahead with establishing a New York office to capitalise on these opportunities.

Pierre Lenders, Head of ESG, Capital Funds Management

Finding ESG Trends through Quant

ESG, Factors, Quant & Systematic

Taking a quantitative approach to ESG allows investors to capitalise on companies moving towards greener and more sustainable business models, rather than simply screening out the biggest polluters and narrowing down the opportunity set, CFM says.

Dong-Hun Jang, CIO, Public Officials Benefit Association

POBA Turns to Alternatives

Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Private & Alternative Markets

Recognising that traditional asset classes were insufficient to meet Korean pensions fund POBA’s objectives, CIO Dong-Hun Jang turned to alternatives. These assets now make up two thirds of the fund and he has plans for a further increase, Jang tells Dan Purves.

COVID sparks PROP Relaunch

ESG

Mental health awareness campaign People Reaching Out to People (PROP) has relaunched its educational campaign, 12 months after the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Australia.