Future Fund Appoints Sue Brake in Deputy CIO Role Asset Allocation & Strategy, Women in FinanceAustralia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has appointed Sue Brake as Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Strategy. In this role, Brake will report to Chief Investment Officer Raphael Arndt. Brake will lead the Future Fund’s Portfolio Strategy function, which is responsible for undertaking macroeconomic and capital markets research and blending this with the bottom-up […] Read More
Moral Hazard in China is Breaking: Fidelity Emerging MarketsThe Chinese government’s willingness to let private companies default on their debt is a sign of a maturing domestic market and helps price debt issuances more accurately, according to Fidelity International. Bryan Collins, Head of Asian Fixed Income at Fidelity, argues the corporate bond market in China is still relatively young and when the first […] Read More
No Westerner Really Understands China: Pearce Asset Owners, Emerging MarketsOut of all Australian Chief Investment Officers, John Pearce, CIO of Unisuper, is probably best placed to have a view on China. But his insights are not what you might expect. Read More
The Impact of Small Funds Asset Allocation & StrategySometimes it pays off for a pension fund to be small and nimble and one area where this is a clear advantage is in impact investing. Read More
In Search of Temperament V – Probabilistic Thinking MarketFoxOur exploration of the ideal investor temperament continues with our fifth post in this series. We’ll focus on the reasons why investors need to think probabilistically and how to do it Read More
APG Sees More Dispersion in Investor Returns Ahead Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset OwnersThe rise of alternative data sets is likely to create a wider dispersion of investors’ returns as the wide range of available data will lead investors to take more varying approaches than they have done so in the past, according to APG Asset Management. Until recently, most financial strategies have relied on a handful of […] Read More
ASX Blockchain Targets Communication not Trading Asset Allocation & StrategyGerben de Zwart, Head of Quantitative Equities at Dutch pension behemoth APG, believes that the rise in the use of alternative datasets will see a divergence of manager returns, as they will have to pick and choose which databases to analyse. Read More
Stock Markets Are Increasingly Irrelevant Economics, EquitiesStock markets are less about investing and more about collecting rents these days, Tim Hodgson of TAG says. He questions whether the distinction between public and private will survive with the rise of blockchain technology. Read More
Real Estate Debt Looks Better Than Equity Fixed Income, Real EstateFrom a macroeconomic point of view, real estate debt looks better than real estate equity, PGIM CEO of Real Estate says. Read More
