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.
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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NEST broods on SRI choice
The UK’s National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will offer members a socially responsible investment fund, one of the first investment decisions the trustee board has made as it finalises its investment strategy.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Now this is a merger: NZ mulls mega-fund
The New Zealand government could create a single NZ$40 billion ($30 billion) fund under a proposal mooted in its inaugural ‘Investment Statement’ published this month. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Cancun does not solve key issues: Sorensen
The international climate process survived at COP16, but the UN Cancun Agreement does not solve key issues such as legally binding emission targets and carbon pricing, according to chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, Ole Beier Sorensen.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Resentment builds over AIFM Directive
Two-thirds of Europe’s alternative assets fund managers oppose the AIFM Directive, with the EU passport and disclosure requirements topping the list of concerns.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Clarifying the concept of risk management
Scientific director at EDHEC-Risk Institute Lionel Martellini, reminds investors of the difference between risk management and risk measurement, highlighting there are some limits to risk diversification.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Real estate or infrastructure? Evidence from conditional asset allocation
This study by Tobias Dechant and Konrad Finkenzeller from the University of Rengensberg’s BS Institute of Real Estate, reassesses the role of real estate in the asset allocation processs, by considering a wide range of alternative and/or seemingly related assets, paying particular attention to infrastructure. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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