Climate Transition: Beyond Low Carbon Investing Equities, ESG, Webinars In partnership with Aviva Investors, [i3] convened a webinar to discuss the implications of climate transition to investors’ portfolios. With combined backgrounds in Environmental Biology, Environmental Technology and Finance, Rick Stathers and Jaime Ramos Martin shared their perspectives on how investors can go beyond low carbon investing to build resilience into portfolios. Key issues included: The […] Read More
VFMC ups Real Estate Weightings Asset Owners, Real Estate Under its three yearly asset allocation review, VFMC decided to increase its allocation to infrastructure, property and private credit. Florence Chong speaks with Pete King about what this means for the property portfolio Read More
Infrastructure Over the Long Term Infrastructure As the pandemic wreaks havoc across the globe, does this structurally change the outlook for long-term assets, such as infrastructure? We speak with Aberdeen Standard’s Head of Economic Infrastructure to find out. Read More
Rethinking Retirement Strategies Editorial, Retirement Retirees are often too conservative in their spending of superannuation money. How do we address this issue, when developing retirement products? Read More
Pharma Unlikely to Strike Gold with Vaccine Equities, Financial Crisis A COVID-19 vaccine might not prove to be a watershed moment for the pharmaceutical industry, but there are plenty of other opportunities, Capital Group says Read More
Investing in Global Champions Equities, Innovation, Webinars How can investors navigate global equity markets during this volatile period? What does this mean for globalisation and for long-term investors? Jonathan Knowles shared his perspectives on medical innovation in the context of COVID-19. Read More
Ping An on Factors in China Chief Investment Officers, Emerging Markets, Equities, Factors, Quant & Systematic The Chinese stock market is driven by different quantitative factors than those in the US and Europe, Ping An China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Deputy CIO said. Steve Zhang speaks to us about the companies quant and machine learning strategies. Read More
VFMC Appoints Head of Portfolio Management Asset Owners VFMC has appointed former State Super CIO Gary Gabriel as Head of the Portfolio Management Group within the fund’s Investment Team. Read More
WTW Adopts Diversity Scores ESG, Women in Finance Willis Towers Watson has introduced new inclusion and diversity scores to assess progress among asset managers and sets itself targets to discover best-in-class managers. Read More