PSP Expands Agricultural Portfolio Private & Alternative Markets Whether in walnuts and almonds in Australia, coffee in Brazil, or sugar cane in Hawaii, Canadian pension fund PSP Investments is now an agriculture investor to contend with. Read More
At the Foothills of a New Cold War Financial Crisis The world is at the foothills of a new cold war as the coronavirus pandemic has revealed the geopolitical fault lines that have developed in recent years in the relationship between the United States and China, geopolitics expert Alan Dupont says. Read More
Cbus Reaches Scale with Internalisation Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Leadership & Management CBus has finalised the majority of its internalisation program. We speak to Deputy CIO Brett Chatfield about the fund’s experience and the launch of its latest quantimental strategy. Read More
Pandemic Could Accelerate Energy Transition ESG, Women in Finance The coronavirus pandemic could accelerate the transition from fossil fuel energy generation to generation through renewable energy, as demand and supply shocks affect the forecast for peak fuel usage and gives policymakers the tools to implement a more sustainable energy system, according to State Street Global Advisors. Read More
Experimenting with Uncertainty Editorial In this editorial, Teik Heng Tan explains the decisions made for [i3] during the pandemic and plans for the second half of the year. Read More
Factors Underwater Factors, Quant & Systematic, Opinion Traditional factor portfolios have had a tough time before and during the pandemic. This is an excellent opportunity for the industry to accelerate its innovation toward alternative data and AI. Read More
Risk Mitigation Helps OPTrust Limit Losses Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Financial Crisis, Private & Alternative Markets Canadian fund OPTrust employs a risk mitigating portfolio to help protect the fund from the worst of the volatility that can be experienced in growth assets, and it has proven quite resilient during the recent turmoil. Read More
Fixed Income ETFs Pass Liquidity Test Financial Crisis, Fixed Income & Credit As bond markets froze up in March of this year, when the scale of the pandemic became clear, fixed income ETFs remained liquid and experienced record trading volumes. We speak to BlackRock’s Steve Laipply to see how these ETFs held up under their first real life stress test. Read More
When Chickens Come Home to Roost Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets Chicken farms and almond plantations are perhaps not the first things that come to mind when thinking about investments. But these agricultural investments have proven to be quite a find for First State Super. Read More
