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Next week conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com takes you inside the decision-making processes of one of the Middle East’s biggest funds with an exclusive interview with the chief investment officer of the Abu Dhabi Retirement Pensions and Benefits Fund.

Pastoral musings on investments

Chief research strategist and head of beta research at RogersCasey, Cynthia Steer, takes a summertime look at the “New World” of investing. She compares today’s investment challenges to those of gardening, and in contemplating the stoicism and constancy of long-time gardeners and farmers, she notes that portfolios today need to be re-constituted, the risk within them re-considered, and that our old “beds” or asset classes need to be re-analysed.

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Creative mandates for UniSuper as new CIO settles in

Fresh from a stint as head of asset management at China’s second largest insurance company, Ping An, the new chief investment officer of the $A19 billion ($16 billion) UniSuper, John Pearce, has some definitive views on how to position the fund for the future, including bringing some equities management in-house, focusing on infrastructure in the developed world, and being more creative in setting its investment mandates.

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