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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Coming out for gay and lesbian themes
With the return to favour of top-down equities management and renewed focus by pension funds on their asset allocation and beta exposures, there has consequently been a resurgence in thematic investment styles and products.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Sustainability among key industry’s tagged for China’s growth
It’s not very salubrious but it’s secure. The four-star Jingxi Hotel in Beijing (pictured), which is owned by the People’s Liberation Army, hosted the annual plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee to draft the country’s next five-year plan.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Asian equities no longer an asset class?
One of the ironies about the way big pension funds are rethinking their asset allocation strategies is that regional specialisation appears to be becoming less popular, even for the world’s fastest-growing region.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
CalPERS to finalise alternative asset classifications
CalPERS’s investment committee is expected to make a decision on its alternative asset classification at a November asset liability management workshop.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Investors must lift ESG reporting standards: MSCI
As MSCI moves to expand its sustainability research capability to emerging markets, its global head of index and ESG research, Remy Briand, has urged investors to dramatically improve their reporting standards to make good on their ESG cause.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
The nemesis of cap-weighted indexing turn attention to bonds
First he convinced some of us that cap-weighted indexing doesn’t work, now Rob Arnott, the founder of Research Affiliates, is back with more bombshells – that the equity risk premium, as we came to know it, is gone and not hurrying back; and that emerging market debt is “objectively a better credit risk” than US
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