Episode 113: FCLT’s Eduard Van Gelderen – Long Term Investing, Concentrated Portfolios and Decarbonisation Eduard van Gelderen is Head of Research for Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT), an organisation that was established in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, or Great Recession as it is known in the US, to move away from a so-called “quarterly capitalism”, which arguably contributed to the crisis, and towards a […] Read More
Episode 112: Fulcrum’s Suhail Shaikh Suhail Shaikh is Chief Investment Officer of Fulcrum Asset Management and is the portfolio manager of Fulcrum’s Discretionary Macro and Diversified Absolute Return strategies. In today’s incredibly volatile environment of tariff wars and deglobalisation, investors tend to be more sensitive about the level of their absolute returns, than their performance against the benchmark. In this […] Read More
Episode 102: Qantas Super’s Andrew Spence In episode 102 of the [i3] Podcast, we speak with Andrew Spence, Chief Investment Officer of the $9 billion corporate super fund Qantas Super. Qantas Super recently announced to merge with ART and we took the opportunity to look back at the investment strategy that Spence put in place as the fund’s CIO, the innovations […] Read More
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
