Past Programs

  Do squirrels ever forget where they put their nuts? Legend has it that squirrels simply absent-mindedly bury nuts in the hope of sniffing some out in the future – whether they are the ones they buried or otherwise. But in 1990, Princeton University’s biology department dispelled this myth of squirrel behaviour. They discovered that […]

The 4th annual Portfolio Construction Masterclass will enable the global investment management community to impart knowledge and expertise to senior executives of provident/trust funds in the Pacific Island and Oceania region. It will also serve as a platform peer-to-peer exchange and collaboration amongst these funds.

If the correlation between equities and bonds will look different in the years ahead, what does this mean for your equity portfolio? These and other questions will be discussed at the [i3] Equities & Equity Alternatives Forum 2018.

In line with [i3]’s vision of facilitating dialogues between asset owners (fiduciary investors) and asset managers, this roundtable aims to help asset managers take stock of the changing investment environment and implications for clients’ strategy and organisational development. At this year’s roundtable, we focus on the changing nature of the relationship between asset manager, asset consultant and investor.

Last year, investors were faced with bond yields at all time lows, while the outlook for economic growth looked increasingly positive. This sparked some concerns over the possibility of rapidly rising interest rates. But investors are now increasingly accepting that we might be faced in a low yield, low growth environment for much longer than thought possible. What to do when faced with such difficult conditions?

Global markets continue to experience distortions as a result of interventionist monetary policies of the major central banks. Investors’ portfolios inevitably experience the consequences, with correlations and asset class returns less stable and unpredictable.