In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of institutional content at Investment Magazine, chats with Aaron Minney, head of retirement income research at Challenger, about a range of topics including deaccumulation, sequencing risk and income generation in retirement.
Future Fund: AI world order defined by US-China split will hurt capital owners
A geostrategic standoff between the US and China over AI would be “extremely damaging for capital owners” according to the Future Fund, Australia’s A$337 billion ($237 billion) sovereign wealth fund, which outlined four “secular scenarios” around AI and its investment implications.
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Disruptive renewables evolving faster
The pace of innovation in renewables has gone from incremental to rapid in recent years, fuelled by improvements in cost and performance. This has made ideas like solar truly disruptive at last.
AI investment ‘must be for all’
Artificial intelligence has the potential to treat diabetes and autism. Investors in the technology should focus on bringing such significant boons into the world, scientist Vivienne Ming said.
Scholes’ strategies for compound returns
Nobel laureate Myron Scholes touted the importance of patiently pursuing compound returns and pointed out some strategies for enhancing them, including gleaning data on risk from option prices.
Asset owners take charge on fees
New models that better align interests and a commitment to ‘fee principles’ are among the ways investors are getting more value for the expense. Even smaller funds are getting into the act.
PGGM, CalPERS detail climate policies
Dutch pension giant PGGM explained how viewing climate risk through many lenses helped it address uncertainty, while California’s CalPERS discussed its proactive governance with big emitters.
Fossil fuel on last legs: Lovins
Rocky Mountain Institute co-founder Amory Lovins warned that competition would tip fossil fuels into decline at a ‘breathtaking’ pace. Investors have a duty to act, he said.
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