David Bell: Analysis from the Conexus Institute

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.

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How private credit investors are preparing for software’s AI reckoning

How private credit investors are preparing for software’s AI reckoning

As the private credit industry matures, the first real stress tests are emerging – from AI-exposed software loans to eroding covenants in megadeals. Institutional investors are responding by rethinking where the illiquidity premium justifies the risk.

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Coming out for gay and lesbian themes

With the return to favour of top-down equities management and renewed focus by pension funds on their asset allocation and beta exposures, there has consequently been a resurgence in thematic investment styles and products.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Sustainability among key industry’s tagged for China’s growth

It’s not very salubrious but it’s secure. The four-star Jingxi Hotel in Beijing (pictured), which is owned by the People’s Liberation Army, hosted the annual plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee to draft the country’s next five-year plan.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Asian equities no longer an asset class?

One of the ironies about the way big pension funds are rethinking their asset allocation strategies is that regional specialisation appears to be becoming less popular, even for the world’s fastest-growing region.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

CalPERS to finalise alternative asset classifications

CalPERS’s investment committee is expected to make a decision on its alternative asset classification at a November asset liability management workshop.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Investors must lift ESG reporting standards: MSCI

As MSCI moves to expand its sustainability research capability to emerging markets, its global head of index and ESG research, Remy Briand, has urged investors to dramatically improve their reporting standards to make good on their ESG cause.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

The nemesis of cap-weighted indexing turn attention to bonds

First he convinced some of us that cap-weighted indexing doesn’t work, now Rob Arnott, the founder of Research Affiliates, is back with more bombshells – that the equity risk premium, as we came to know it, is gone and not hurrying back; and that emerging market debt is “objectively a better credit risk” than US

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