In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of domestic content, Conexus Financial, chats with David Bell, executive director of the Conexus Institute, about a range of topics including governance models, market timing, heatmaps and early access.
PMT talks infra equity and how to balance stock concentration risk
Scenario testing has put inflation risk front and centre at PMT, the Netherlands’ third largest pension fund, and it's driving the investor to take stock of the inflation protection it gets from infrastructure. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, chief investment officer Hartwig Liersch unpacks the risk, as well as another initiative where it's balancing concentration risk in the equity allocation without hurting returns.
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Billions in dry powder waiting for signs of distress in real estate
The challenges currently outweigh the opportunities in many classes of real assets, and funds have billions in dry powder waiting for better deals, but strong fundamentals will ultimately prevail in the long term, said the head of asset manager Nuveen’s real assets business. The listed real estate sector was last year “trading at some of
60/40 may be ‘flipped around’ as fixed income appeal rises
After more than a decade of high-priced bonds, fixed income is now compensating investors more than many asset classes, argued Raymond Sagayam, chief investment officer, fixed income at Pictet Asset Management in the United Kingdom.
Machines can now detect when bullish executives doubt their own words
Three major trends have converged to drive growing appeal in new alternative data classes of quantitative investing, according to a leading quant researcher. “Quants like us who were in the right place at the right time in history can take advantage of the confluence of these three major secular trends,” said Mike Chen, head of
Recession is a lot more likely than markets are expecting
A slight moderation in inflation statistics, and a rising belief that growth is more durable than expected, has lulled markets into a false sense of security, according to senior portfolio strategist Phil Dobrin at American investment management firm Bridgewater Associates. Markets are now changing their prices and discounting a future that is at odds with
Re-shoring is a fad, services exports will drive Asia to new heights
There is no such thing as deglobalisation, and the reshaping of global trade amidst increasing protectionism is simply globalisation taking a different form, according to the chief economist at the asset management arm of two-century-old Swiss bank Pictet.
Sweden’s AP Funds emphasise the long-term as returns take a hit
This time last year, Sweden’s four buffer funds reported the best returns in their history. Fast forward 12 months, and the four funds have posted losses thanks to allocations to equities and fixed income dragging their portfolios down.




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