The Illusion of Rationality Behavioural Finance, Factors, Quant & Systematic Not all problems are computable and there is good reasons to believe that many investment problems fall into this category, Professor Carsten Murawski of the Brain, Mind & Markets Lab says. Read More
Real Estate Profile: Hostplus – Part I Asset Owners, Real Estate Hostplus is eyeing offshore property as the fund continues to grow. Read More
Trafford-Walker to leave Frontier Advisors Women in Finance Fiona Trafford-Walker will depart Frontier Advisors on 6 December 2019, after 25 years with the asset consultant. Read More
Roadmap seeks to end Modern Slavery ESG A commission against modern slavery has called upon the finance sector to end slavery and provides a blueprint of how to achieve this in a report launched at the United Nations. Read More
No Retirement Solution Fits All Retirement, Women in Finance Jacki Ellis has been given the task to spearhead First State Super’s retirement strategy from an investment perspective. We speak to Ellis about the complexity of the problem, the challenges of CIPRs and the need for customisation. Read More
Does Your ESG Policy Breach Fiduciary Duty? ESG, Factors, Quant & Systematic There are limits to how much of an ESG tilt you can introduce to your portfolio before it becomes more risky than a market index. But what is too much? Harin de Silva of Analytic Investors has found a way to measure this. Read More
Real Estate Profile – First State Super Asset Owners, Real Estate First State Super has spent four years rationalising its real estate portfolio, selling $1 billion of old stock. Now, the fund has turned its eye on responsible investments in the residential sector, Florence Chong writes. Read More
In Defence of Life-cycle Strategies Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Innovation, Retirement Australian Catholic Super CIO Michael Block addresses some of the criticism of life-cycle strategies and argues that we should take a closer look at the concept behind it. “To always place a member who is 20 years old with a 60-year old member in the same strategy is clearly ridiculous,” he says. Read More
The Average Company Doesn’t Matter Equities Investing is about capturing the outliers, Baillie Gifford’s Tom Slater says. In a study of long term buy-and-hold strategies, he found that more than 50 per cent of returns were driven by just three companies in the portfolio. But how do you find these outliers? Read More
