Stuart Simmons: Currency management, reflexivity and the next regime change

[vc_empty_space]Despite an increasing willingness to invest globally, asset owners typically run static hedge ratios on their portfolios to manage currency risk. But is this a big mistake? The Australian dollar fell 1450 basis points from 1 January 2020 to 20 March, and has subsequently rallied 900 basis points.

View Stuart’s presentation slides here

Speaker

  • Stuart Simmons, senior portfolio manager, QIC
  • Moderator: Alex Proimos, head of institutional content, Investment Magazine

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The ‘brutal pursuit’ that shaped Aware Super’s new CIO

The new chief investment officer of the $230 billion Aware Super expects that the fund will be around for the next 100 years. To make sure it keeps delivering for members, he’s optimising the work already done to build its portfolio, thinking hard about the best way to access assets, and embracing the risk management lessons he first learned as a trader for Chemical Bank.

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