In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of domestic content, Conexus Financial, chats with Veronica Klaus, general manager – investment consulting at Lonsec, about a range of topics including the advice gap, allocations for retirement, liquidity in private assets and income strategies for retirees.
Why sustainability pays for US timberland manager RMS
Alabama-based timber manager RMS has developed its own index to measure biodiversity in its forests. The move is in response to a jump in the number of asset owners asking biodiversity questions.
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New decision making parameters for Alaska’s investments
The $38.5 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) has made further enhancements to its unique approach to investment decision making, clarifying procedures relating to risk guidelines in its investment policy. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Emerging and frontier markets continue darling run
Global equity markets significantly underperformed emerging and frontier markets in 2010, evidenced by MSCI Indices end of year data, with some emerging markets returning as much as 50 per cent and some frontier markest returning 70 per cent for the year.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Japan fund reduces domestic bond weighting
The world’s largest investor, the ¥117,643 billion ($1.43 trillion) Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan (GPIF) has reduced its weighting to domestic bonds by more than 1 per cent, moving the money into short term assets.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
How do hedge funds manage portfolio risk?
Gavin Cassar from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Joseph Gerakos at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, investigate the determinants and effectiveness of methods that hedge funds use to manage portfolio risk. They find that levered funds are more likely to use formal models to evaluate portfolio risk.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored
Private equity in the 21st century
This detailed research looks at cross-sectional and time-series cash flow performance of a large sample of private equity funds across a range of asset classes, and examines the relationship with the management contracts of those funds. It concludes, among other things, that there is some evidence that funds with lower GP capital commitments outperform.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored
Specialised short positions challenge beta behaviour
Long/short funds with specialised short positions have greater beta convexity and present greater liquidity strain in rebalancing, according to new research by Morgan Stanley.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3




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