Prof Rob Hyndman: Forecasting COVID, time-series, and why causality doesnt matter as much as you think.

Prof Rob Hyndman discusses the interesting elements of his work as editor of the Internal Journal of Forecasting, his work on forecasting COVID for the Australian government, time-series and causality. 

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PMT talks infra equity and how to balance stock concentration risk

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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Private equity moves to centre-stage

Tomas Hricko, product manager at global private equity fund-of-funds manager, Adveq, tells Amanda White why private equity should be the core of an institutional investor’s portfolio, not a satellite.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

How to predict your PE manager’s performance

There are an estimated 1,600 private equity firms around the world in capital-raising mode at the moment, offering fiduciary investors a smorgasbord of alternatives, split on regions, style, size, stage and sector categorisations. Some recent good news for investors is that, for private equity at least, there is now evidence of performance persistence.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content

Gaddafi SWF investees revolt and freeze funds

As tensions in Libya increase, a leading authority on sovereign wealth funds has urged investee entities of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) to freeze its holdings, until such time as they are needed to rebuild an independent Libya.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Making sense of China’s excessive foreign reserves

This analysis suggests that without a well-developed domestic financial market, the value of the Chinese currency (renminbi) may significantly depreciate, instead of appreciate, once the Chinese government abandons the linked exchange rate and the massive amount of precautionary savings of Chinese households are unleashed toward international financial markets to search for better returns.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content

Alaska Permanent looks to emerging markets

The Alaska Permanent Fund Board of Trustees was educated on the changing risk profiles of emerging-market debt at its meeting in February, with chair, Bill Moran, suggesting the asset class could have a greater role in the fund’s portfolio in the future.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Chinese firm’s advice: forget cap-weighted indexes

Pension funds need to look at building a “new beta system”, according to Dr Henry Zhao (pictured), moving away from traditional global indexes in general and cap-weighted indexes in particular.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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