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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HOOPP ‘healthy’ building to reduce energy by 50 per cent
The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) Realty-owned AeroCentre V opened in Mississauga this week, a cutting edge “healthy” office building with features that include windows that open, and natural light that will help will reduce energy consumption 35-50 per cent.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Dodd-Frank Act will stand or fall on right people
At a Yale-hosted roundtable on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, professor of economics, Robert Shiller, said the success of the Act, and the agencies created to study aspects of the market, will depend on appointing the right people, who should be willing to take advice from his fellow economists.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Why the UK needs longevity bonds
David Blake, director of the Pensions Institute at the Cass Business School in London, believes the UK government should issue longevity bonds to help create an efficient capital market for the transfer of longevity risk. But given the government’s reluctance to do so, he says, perhaps the private sector should step up.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1
Rival bodies vie for European hedge fund investors
While the hedge fund space may have contracted in the past three years, manager representation at an association level in Europe is set to increase with the launch of a US-based rival group to the London-based Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
CalPERS reduces total tracking error
CalPERS has reduced its total fund tracking error from 2.17 per cent to 1.94 per cent in the quarter to June 30, but it still sits above the budgeted 1.5 per cent.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Slow and steady not necessarily the best way to go
‘The Hare and the Tortoise’, a well-known Aesop’s fable, does not have much in common with ‘An Imperial Message’, a less-well-known story from Franz Kafka, but combined they may tell us something about current reactions to the unsettling world which the global financial crisis has thrown investors into.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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