In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of domestic content, Conexus Financial, chats with Rob Pruguel, principal consultant at Callidum Investment Research, about vulnerability as we restart the global economy, consolidation with superannuation and how bigger isn’t always better.
Future Fund: AI world order defined by US-China split will hurt capital owners
A geostrategic standoff between the US and China over AI would be “extremely damaging for capital owners” according to the Future Fund, Australia’s A$337 billion ($237 billion) sovereign wealth fund, which outlined four “secular scenarios” around AI and its investment implications.
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Brunel keeps wary eye on markets and raises manager reporting duties
In a recently published review, Brunel Pension Partnership vows to “turn the screws” on managers and its holdings via increased RI expectations and warns that rosier economic forecasts of lower interest rates and tamed inflation may not come true.
Global Pension Transparency Benchmark makes process improvements
The Global Pension Transparency Benchmark, a collaboration between Top1000funds.com and CEM Benchmarking, ranking pension funds globally on their transparency of disclosures, will make a number of process improvements to the 2024 survey.
PGGM revamps fixed income; focuses on liquidity
PGGM's Wilfried Bolt explains how the end of quantitative easing (QE) has changed the asset manager's hedging strategy and prompted a keen focus on liquidity. He also explains the rationale behind managing more of the corporate bond allocation in house.
Investors need to face up to commodity realities in the energy transition
Commodities are at the heart of the energy transition, impacting both the coming structural decline of fossil fuels and the demand for the new economy critical materials. But the reality is that many investors are reluctant to talk openly about commodities because of the negative perceptions of the sector.
How Ireland’s ISIF is helping crowd-in transition finance
The €15 billion ($16.1 billion) Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) is finding compelling investment opportunities in the energy transition and is successfully drawing in additional investment to finance Ireland’s net zero commitments.




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