I chat with Alexander, CEO at Rebellion Research, on stock selection, portfolio construction and his passion for teaching.
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The total portfolio approach has allowed Australia’s sovereign wealth fund to capture the themes that will power markets and economies for decades to come, said director of thought leadership Craig Thorburn – but that doesn’t mean it’s not hard to scale.
A future of rising uncertainty demands investors fundamentally re-think the way they assess risk when building resilient portfolios, argued a panel of experts from MSCI and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC.
Markets are facing an “evolution, not a revolution,” and asset returns are likely to improve over the next ten years, despite a range of challenges facing global markets.
"A long-term investor sells when it wants to, not because it has to." This is an especially clear and succinct definition of long-term investing. Long-term investing is about how the institution behaves, not a fixed time period.
It is inaccurate to refer to rising US-China tension as a “new Cold War,” according to a former permanent secretary of Singapore’s Foreign Ministry, as both countries are “vital and irreplaceable components of a single system” with supply chains that are unprecedented in their density, complexity and scope.
Speaking at Conexus Financial’s Fiduciary Investors’ Symposium held in Singapore, leaders from sovereign wealth funds in Singapore and Malaysia, along with United States pension giant CalSTRS, discussed how investors are viewing global macro risks and opportunities, and strategies they are considering to future-proof their portfolios.
It is critical for stakeholders in all nations to find nuanced ways to navigate rising tension between the US and China, and not “surrender agency to the interests of great powers who are much more interested in a zero sum game of ascendancy,” argues Professor Danny Quah from NUS.
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