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.
Why traditional investment committees can amplify group biases
Investment committee meetings, a governance cornerstone at every asset owner organisation, run the risk of amplifying group biases and social dynamics, and can push the IC towards recommending more extreme investment positions collectively than the average of their individual views. Bernhard Scherer, head of portfolio implementation at ADIA, unpacks the thesis in a new paper.
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Scenario planning critical for investors as US-China tensions rise
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.
CalPERS weathers SVB hit; resilience and transparency pays
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.
Appeal of cash will suck money from other asset classes in coming years
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.
Billions in dry powder waiting for signs of distress in real estate
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
60/40 may be ‘flipped around’ as fixed income appeal rises
After more than a decade of high-priced bonds, fixed income is now compensating investors more than many asset classes, argued Raymond Sagayam, chief investment officer, fixed income at Pictet Asset Management in the United Kingdom.
Machines can now detect when bullish executives doubt their own words
Three major trends have converged to drive growing appeal in new alternative data classes of quantitative investing, according to a leading quant researcher. “Quants like us who were in the right place at the right time in history can take advantage of the confluence of these three major secular trends,” said Mike Chen, head of
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