I chat with Sean, senior quantitative analyst at Mine Super, on the scientific process, uncertainty and the changing relationship between academia and the private sector in Australia.
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Portfolios built for the old world will be severely tested as emerging forces rewrite the rules of investing. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that geopolitical and macroeconomic upheaval, together with the disruption wrought by AI, should force asset owners to rethink the structure and composition of portfolios.
While liability-driven investing (LDI) has been gaining in popularity for several years among mainly defined benefit pension plans, the strategy and products are about to get an upgrade in sophistication, according to Russell Investments. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
The ongoing financial crisis has dealt a heavy blow to private pension systems. Between January and October this year, private pensions in the OECD area have registered losses of nearly 20% of their assets (equivalent to USD 5 trillion). mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
OECD has called for policy changes after pension funds around the world lost one fifth of their assets, equivalent to $US 3.3 trillion - in 2008.
Irish pension funds haemorrhaged an estimated euro 27 billion (US$36.5 billion) in 2008, as the global economy moved towards recession and equity markets across the world went into freefall. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Pension fund exposure to Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme has raised questions about the governance of so-called professional investors.
We first published this document in November 2005 during a period of healthy markets and around the peak of the US housing bubble. The main conclusion from the note was that we had just been through an unparalleled period of returns in all asset classes. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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