In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of domestic content, Conexus Financial, chats with Amara Haqqani, director, insights and strategy at Milliman, about grassroots conversations about stopping the super guarantee, the industry’s Copernican moment of kicking product to the kerb, and what the real black swan event has been for super during the Coronavirus crisis.
Amara Haqqani: Super in 2020 – Copernicus, Warren Buffet’s swimming naked, and pitchforks in the street
New Jersey’s $85 billion fund stockpiles cash, eyes PE secondaries
An underweight position across private markets, predicated on a view that geopolitics and inflation mean interest rates are not coming down any time soon, has positioned the New Jersey Division of Investment with plenty of dry powder and a cash position four times the policy allocation. It is now readying for opportunities in private equity secondaries and with emerging managers. Chief investment officer Shoaib Khan spoke to Top1000funds.com.
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Investors’ role in company collaboration
Investors play an important role in facilitating corporate collaborations to improve sustainability says a leading Harvard academic in sustainability.
Consequences of short-term investment
Equity managers are skewed to potentially sub-optimal short-term investment, a new study shows, with little understanding of opportunities missed, risks ignored and hidden costs.
NZ Super cleans out its carbon
Investors are not getting paid for taking on carbon risk according to New Zealand Super, prompting the fund to move its global passive equities portfolio to low carbon.
Not your usual alternatives
With public assets looking fully priced, the New Mexico Retirement Board is diversifying into alternatives such as litigation finance and royalties from intellectual property and music.
Dutch pension funds embrace UN goals
PGGM and APG are well advanced in developing a process to identify potential sustainable development investment opportunities that could transform the UN’s targets into tangible returns.
Communication via the contribution rate
A more meaningful way of keeping defined contribution savers informed and engaged could be through communication in relation to their contribution rates.
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