Markets Could Stabilise as Quarter End Nears Equities, Financial Crisis, Pacific Region As we are heading towards the end of the quarter, the chances are that stock markets will stabilise somewhat since many pension and other multi-asset funds will need to buy equities to get back to target weights. Read More
The Impact of Liquidity on Pension Funds Financial Crisis, Risk and Regulation Liquidity has become a concern for many institutional investors, who are faced with the trade war aftermath, an oil price war and the COVID-19 outbreak. Based on his experience as Head of Enterprise Risk at the Canadian investment manager AIMCo, Dr Guan Seng Khoo provides here a framework for stress testing liquidity. Read More
APRA Concerned over Super Fund SAA Asset Allocation & Strategy, Editorial, Financial Crisis Current developments caused by the coronavirus has the regulator worried about funds’ ability to maintain their strategic asset allocation Read More
Ontario Teachers’ Starts to Flip the ESG Risk Lens Asset Owners, ESG, Women in Finance Ontario Teachers’ Deborah Ng talks about the flip side of ESG risk and the opportunities from the transition to a low-carbon economy Read More
Funds Keep Head Cool as Pandemic Worsens Asset Allocation & Strategy, Economics, Financial Crisis Pension funds are faced with steep drops in equity prices and high levels of members switching to cash options, effectively redeeming their money, as the coronavirus pandemic worsens. But rather than panicking, most Australian pension funds seem well-placed to deal with the current turmoil. Read More
Real Estate Profile – Frontier Advisors Real Estate, Women in Finance Baby boomers and millennials are the two fastest growing cohorts globally and their need for housing, healthcare and medical centres provide interesting real estate investment opportunities, Frontier Advisors’ Jennifer Johnstone-Kaiser says. Read More
A Small Lesson in Decision-making under Uncertainty Editorial, Financial Crisis, Pacific Region Confronted with the question whether to postpone one of our forums or not, the situation turned out to provide a small lesson on decision-making under uncertainty, [i3]’s Teik Heng Tan writes. Read More
VFMC Shifts Internal Equities to Benchmark Unaware Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Equities, Innovation VFMC has changed the way its internal equity invests, shifting towards a benchmark unaware strategy, away from the previous Top 50 stocks approach, CIO Russell Clarke says. Read More
Energy Transition Well Underway: SSGA ESG, Innovation In a new report, State Street Global Advisors concludes that global demand for fossil fuels will peak this decade. We speak to Carlo M. Funk to hear how this might impact institutional investors. Read More