In this episode, Amanda White, director of institutional content, Conexus Financial, chats with Andre Snellen, chair of the Pensioenfonds Detailhandel in the Netherlands about what Australia can learn from other systems around the world.
Andre Snellen: An international comparison of the pension systems
FIS Stanford 2024
The ‘most momentous’ in living memory: The 2024 US presidential election
Douglas Rivers, chief scientist at pollster YouGov, said data coming out of the current US presidential election confirms significant cultural and demographic shifts that are reshaping the political map. Rivers told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium that the once-popular “demographics is destiny” mantra predicting permanent centre-left majorities has lost meaning in the Trump era.
Aleks VickovichOctober 4, 2024
Investor Profile
Utah’s URS: Why fossil fuels and alt energy hold key to climate crisis
US public funds should stop wasting time on thinly veiled political activism, ditch ESG conferences and repurpose most of their sustainability staff, says URS’ CIO John Skjervem. Instead they should invest in proven energy investments and move from either/or to both/and which allows fossil fuels to jostle alongside alt energy.
Sarah RundellOctober 1, 2024
FIS Stanford 2024
How long-term investors should think about stock-bond correlations
Asset owners that are long-term investors should be wary of the conventional model of assessing the stock-bond correlation that is based on several “implicit assumptions”, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard. Instead, the question investors should be asking is: are bonds a hedge or a risk?
Darcy SongSeptember 30, 2024
FIS Stanford 2024
AI already driving ‘biggest transformation in the economy we’ve ever seen’
The economic impact of AI can be better measured if every job is broken down into its component tasks, and the impact on each of those tasks is valued. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that on this basis, we’re seeing the biggest economic transformation ever.
Simon HoyleSeptember 30, 2024
FIS Stanford 2024
Long-duration storage, digitisation key to cracking the energy transition
Packing more energy into smaller batteries is one crucial technological development to help achieving the energy transition within the necessary timeframes, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard, and there are enormous economic opportunities ahead as industry races to unlock solutions.
Prashant MehraSeptember 30, 2024
FIS Stanford 2024
Winds of change blowing through private credit markets
The influx of capital and interest into the private credit market has spawned new managers and offerings, but asset owners are increasingly alert to the fact that not every one of them is built equal, and even tiny losses during the credit cycle can eat significantly into long-term returns.
Darcy SongSeptember 30, 2024
FIS Stanford 2024
Changing geopolitical risks are getting harder to manage – but here’s how
The changing nature of geopolitical risks has made them harder to manage, even though the adversaries to an American-led world order have remained nearly the same over the decades. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard a key difference is that everything that happens everywhere is now interconnected.
Prashant MehraSeptember 30, 2024
