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
The twin forces rewriting the rules of investing
Portfolios built for the old world will be severely tested as emerging forces rewrite the rules of investing. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that geopolitical and macroeconomic upheaval, together with the disruption wrought by AI, should force asset owners to rethink the structure and composition of portfolios.
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DEI a vital tool to building culture at CalPERS
A clear commitment to DEI is helping CalPERS support its senior staff to optimise the performance of its existing teams and provides a valuable framework for attracting a diverse range of new talents. We spoke to chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, Marlene Timberlake D’Adamo.
Politicians wrestle for control at Mississippi PERS
Politicisation at US public pension funds has taken a turn for the worse after a new law threatens to put politicians in charge of the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi.
Why the future of humanity lies in Asia
Global strategy advisor and economist Parag Khanna said Asians’ movements around the world and their increasingly deep intra-region relationships will have massive geopolitical and workforce impacts on global markets.
AI could contribute to productivity boost: Bridgewater
Asset managers are spending vast sums of money to develop artificial intelligence systems to help them make better investment decisions. At a Top1000funds.com event in Singapore, Bridgewater co-CIO Greg Jensen discussed applying AI in financial markets as well as Bridgewater’s artificial intelligence efforts.
Asia’s climate transition requires unique regional presence
Asia is going through its own sustainability journey, and it’s different from the transition pathways in Europe and North America. Robeco head of fixed income, Asia, Thu Ha Chow told the Top1000funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore that this means investing in the region requires a unique, regional perspective.
How to build portfolios if the recent ‘new normal’ isn’t normal at all
The key to constructing investment portfolios with resilience to rapid and unexpected changes is to remain humble, interrogate the data, and not be fooled into thinking the future can be predicted perfectly, according to head of multi-asset strategy APAC for Wellington, Nick Samouilhan.




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