Episode 81: TCorp’s Tanya Branwhite Tanya Branwhite is the Head of Portfolio Construction at the asset manager for the state of New South Wales, TCorp. In this episode, we speak about Tanya’s early career, including ruffling some feathers at Macquarie Group, TCorp‘s interpretation of a Total Portfolio Approach and the lessons we should have learned from the GFC. Enjoy the […] Read More
Episode 73: PERSI’s Bob Maynard Retires In this episode of the [i3] Podcast, we speak with Bob Maynard, Chief Investment Officer of the Public Employees Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) at the eve of his retirement, after 30 years with the fund. We look back at how a job as the deputy attorney of Alaska saw him getting involved with investing […] Read More
Episode 68: The Future Fund’s Sue Brake Sue Brake is the Chief Investment Officer of the Future Fund. In this episode, we talk about the fund’s 15 year celebration, looking at the early days of how the fund started to invest just as the global financial crisis began to impact markets. We also discuss the recent investment strategy review and look at […] Read More
Episode 61: AustralianSuper’s Alistair Barker Alistair Barker is the Head of Total Portfolio Management, Investments for AustralianSuper, one of the largest pension funds in the country at $200 billion. In this episode, we spoke about dynamic asset allocation, the impact of the Your Future, Your Super reforms on active management and technological disruption. Please enjoy the show. 1:00 Starting out […] Read More
Episode 53: Sunsuper’s Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher is Head of Asset Allocation at Australian pension fund Sunsuper. We discussed the impact of how the markets have changed since the 2008 financial crisis on asset allocation and whether these changes are structural or part of a very long cycle. We also discuss the fund’s partnership program, whether value is truly a […] 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
Episode 46: TCorp’s Stewart Brentnall Stewart Brentnall is the Chief Investment Officer of Tcorp, the asset management arm of NSW. In this interview, we discuss the fund’s move towards a total portfolio approach, how TCorp views partnerships with fund managers and his thoughts on the Canadian Model. Overview of podcast with Stewart Brentnall: 2:00 Getting started in investing. 2:40 My […] Read More
Episode 41: VMLH’s Vijoy Chattergy Vijoy Chattergy is the founder and president of VMLH, a consulting firm for global institutional investors. Previously, Vijoy was Chief Investment Officer of the US$17.5 billion State of Hawai‘i Employees Retirement System. He is well known for implementing an investment philosophy that focuses on functional risk classes instead of asset classes, which led him to […] Read More
Episode 40: Frontier Advisor’s Fiona Trafford-Walker Fiona Trafford-Walker is one of the world’s most respected asset consultants, but has announced to leave the company on 6 December 2019 to focus on her directorships. In this podcast, we look back on her 25 years with Frontier Advisors, her career as an asset consultant and discuss a variety of topics, including manager selection, […] Read More
