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.
Michael Pettis on China’s overinvestment paradox, and the Japan-style reckoning still to come
China's advanced infrastructure and ballooning debt are two sides of the same story, says Carnegie Endowment nonresident senior fellow Michael Pettis, who compares China's coming consumption-led rebalancing to Japan's in the 1980s. In conversation with Top1000funds.com Asia Pacific correspondent Darcy Song, Pettis unpacks what this means for institutional investors weighing China exposure over multi-decade horizons, and why he remains bearish on the country's outlook.
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QIA buys agribusiness, but not land, to feed Qatar
A food company owned by the $65 billion Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has launched a joint venture in Sudan as part of its strategy to generate profit and secure food supply by investing in overseas agricultural businesses. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
What the world needs now: greater surveillance on exchange rates
The world needs to move back to a rules-based system of oversight over currencies and enhanced global surveillance of national macroeconomic policies, according to a leading Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, UK. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
ING the latest to hive off funds management
Another big bank is set to hive off its funds management business to shore up its balance sheet, with this week’s announcement of the proposed divestments by ING Group. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
China’s CIC goes public with investment strategy
China Investment Corporation has for the first time revealed its investment strategy. SONIA HAN reports that the Chinese sovereign wealth fund has accelerated its investment program in open-market products and industries such as mining, energy and real estate. The CIC is seeing value after the crisis but is also looking to limit portfolio risk. mrec4inarticleinline
Pension funds to talk climate change with the Prince
The P8, a group of 12 of the world’s largest pension funds tasked with influencing policy makers on climate change, will meet in London next week for a two-day conference convened by its patron, Prince Charles, in the last meeting of the group before the Copenhagen conference of political leaders. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2
Investors need to factor in inflation – Wurts
It may still be the right time to allocate to distressed real estate and debt-related strategies as deleveraging continues around the world and capital remains in short supply. But a significant factor likely to impact on portfolios in the medium term, according to US asset consultancy Wurts & Associates, is inflation. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1
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