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.
Returns, resilience and reinvention: What private markets’ top brass are worried about
Senior executives from some of the world's largest private market managers gathered in Berlin this month with a collective understanding: managers who move slowly on AI face not just weaker returns but the risk of owning businesses that have been competitively displaced before they can exit.
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Pension Markets in Focus
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 calls for reform of pension policy
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.
No luck for Irish pensions
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 funds fooled by Madoff
Pension fund exposure to Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme has raised questions about the governance of so-called professional investors.
100 Years of Corporate Bond Returns Revisited
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
Don’t fret the normal discipline with rebalancing – Callan
As the end of the year approaches, the issue of rebalancing for pension funds – a vexed one in the market volatility of the past year – is becoming more acute. US-based adviser Callan Associates is advising clients to depart from the normal disciplines around rebalancing in these extreme conditions. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2
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