Episode 59: Lazard’s Steve Wreford Steve Wreford is a portfolio manager in the Global Thematic Equity team with Lazard Asset Management. In this episode, we talked about the difference between an investment theme and a good story, sell discipline, monetary policy (“It is hubris!”) and non-linear structural changes. Please enjoy the show! Overview of podcast with Steve Wreford, Lazard Asset […] Read More
15 Years of the Future Fund Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners This year the Future Fund celebrates its 15 year anniversary. We take a look at the early days of the fund and how this period shaped the portfolio as it stands today. Read More
Student Housing a No-go Zone for Locals Opinion, Real Estate The student housing sector in Australia is almost fully backed foreign institutional investors, as domestic funds show hesitance to commit to the sector, Florence Chong writes Read More
Episode 50: PRI’s Nathan Fabian Nathan Fabian is Chief Responsible Investment Officer with the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The PRI believes that financial markets today have not adequately priced-in the likely near-term policy response to climate change. In this podcast, we talk about the release of the Inevitable Policy Response, a project that aims to prepare investors for the […] Read More
COVID sparks PROP Relaunch ESG Mental health awareness campaign People Reaching Out to People (PROP) has relaunched its educational campaign, 12 months after the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Australia. Read More
Episode 49: BlackRock’s Stephen Laipply In Episode 49 of the [i3] Podcast, we speak with Stephen Laipply, US Head of iShares Fixed Income ETFs for BlackRock. We discuss how fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) fared during March and April of this year, when many bond markets froze due the global pandemic. We talk about price discovery in listed and […] Read More
Tackling Net Zero by 2050 Asset Owners, ESG Cbus has conducted a review of the asset classes in its portfolio to see how the fund can prepare for reaching the target of net carbon neutrality by 2050. Read More
Episode 48: Research Affiliate’s Rob Arnott Rob Arnott is the founder and Chairman of Research Affiliates. In January, he published a paper that looked into the question of why the value premium hasn’t worked for the last decade, called ‘Reports of Value’s Death May Be Greatly Exaggerated‘. In this interview, we talk about the paper, how the current downturn due to […] Read More
Episode 47: Pinebridge’s Michael Kelly Multi-manager firm Pinebridge Investments is a partner of Australian pension fund SunSuper and was given the task to write a research paper on how it decided to go active or passive in a particular market. Michael Kelly is Global Head of Multi-Asset at Pinebridge and takes us through the research paper. He also talks about […] Read More
Pearce on Early Days of Internalisation Asset Owners, In-house Management When Unisuper decided to internalise asset management functions, it adopted an approach of ‘logical incrementalism’ rather than putting forward a grand vision for the future, CIO John Pearce says. Read More