In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of domestic content, Conexus Financial, chats with Jason Brady, chief executive and president of Thornburg Investment Management, about a range of topics including dividends, bond yields and creating robust income in retirement.
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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Build a playground, but let your investment team play on the slide
Innovation comes from collaboration, not from building silos, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard. Leading academic Redouane Elkamhi told the symposium the boards of pension funds should create structures that allow investment teams to actually do what they are asked to do.
Enhanced tech capabilities makes reinforcement learning viable
What was once too intense to be utilised by computing processes, reinforcement learning has become a viable tool for asset owners. John Hull, Maple Financial chair in derivatives and risk management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium this now outperforms simpler modelling approaches.
Same same, but different: Governance lessons from three markets
Despite global pension markets’ varying levels of maturity, the goal of combining portfolio resilience with meeting fund objectives is the same, and it can be achieved through different manifestations of governance structures.
Managing the multiple drivers of long-term investing
For asset owners to stay the course of a long-term investing view, not only do their investment teams need to be behind the objective, but also their board and external managers. Or investors might find themselves fighting an uphill battle in a market where short-termism is prevalent.
Turning AI loose inside asset-owner organisations
The power of artificial intelligence to makes sense of huge volumes of data and produce real business gains has obvious appeal for asset owners. Working out how to apply the technology can be overwhelming, but the Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that the most important thing is to start.
Looking past the hype to the real benefits (and risks) of AI
AI is on every investor’s lips as a technology that will revolutionise businesses and industries. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that looking past the hype to the tangible, on-the-ground benefits presents some genuine challenges for asset owners and the managers they often employ to do it for them.
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