With stocks markets experiencing high volatility and economists warning of a first recession in 27 years, retirees and the broader community are looking for leadership. The Assistant Minister discussed the latest policy initiatives and how we navigate a dual public health and financial crisis.
Speaker: Hon. Jane Hume, Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology
Moderator: Colin Tate, chief executive, Conexus Financial
Length: 40 mins, 59 seconds
A view that the US stock market is overvalued and equity risk premia will be lower over the long term has driven New Zealand Super to lower the return expectations for its reference portfolio following its recent five-yearly review of the benchmark. Co-chief investment officer Brad Dunstan also flags underweight commodity exposure as an area to address and explains why the fund remains sceptical of illiquidity premia despite seeing a growing case for private markets.
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.
Investors in China need to look beyond the top-down narratives coming from foreign countries and media to dig up the true story of what’s really happening in the market, argued Lirong Xu, the Shanghai-based chief investment officer of Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Management.
Managing the rise of great power competition between the US and China, and not letting it “go off the rails,” is the epochal challenge of our day, according to former US National Security Council member Richard Falkenrath who is now head of geopolitics and chief security officer at Bridgewater Associates.
Norway's sovereign wealth fund and Sweden’s largest pension fund Alecta are among funds with heavy losses from the SVB collapse. For CalPERS, which only had a small exposure, the tumultuous weekend highlighted the importance of resilience and transparency with the team quick to identify exposures and provide analysis.
Cash is now a viable investment option for the first time in many years, and its appeal will draw money from other asset classes leading to poor performance both in financial assets and the real economy, according to Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer at global investment management firm Bridgewater Associates.
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
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