Investment Strategy

Investment Strategy

AMP Capital co-investing alongside hedge funds to add idiosyncratic returns

Seeking reduced correlation to other strategies such as equities, AMP Capitals’ Anastassia Juventin says co-investment aims to enhance the idiosyncrasy of hedge fund return streams.

Ben HurleyJuly 8, 2020

Investment Strategy

Alternatives a ‘loser’s game’: Ennis Knupp founder

Richard Ennis, an early pioneer of quant investing and co-founder of US investment consultancy giant EnnisKnupp, has a simple message for fund trustees: Liquidate your alternative investments and put the proceeds into index funds.

Ben HurleyJuly 6, 2020

Investment Strategy

Look to alternatives as COVID-19 threatens core real assets

COVID-19 is severely disrupting core, traditional real assets so investors need to increasingly turn to non-GDP exposed assets and alternatives, says Willis Towers Watson’s Dania Zinurova

Ben PowerJuly 6, 2020

Investment Strategy

US recession to be more protracted than expected: DiMartino Booth

Fed policy is exacerbating the “barbell” shape of the US economy and setting it up for a domino chain of hardship when the credit cycle is allowed to return to normality, argues market commentator and chief strategist Danielle DiMartino Booth.

Ben HurleyJuly 1, 2020

CIO profiles

Sicilia: No cash-flow crisis, critics ‘simply wrong’

Hostplus CIO Sam Sicilia says critics are “simply wrong” about the fund facing a cash flow short-age, and argues the labels growth and defensive have become obsolete to the point of being “nonsensical”.

Ben HurleyJune 24, 2020

Investment Strategy

Australia’s super industry should chase inflation-based returns

Superannuation funds are aiming at the wrong goal posts by focusing on short-term performance league tables, says Callidum Investment Research principal consultant Rob Prugue.

Meredith BoothJune 24, 2020

Investment Strategy

Why equities haven’t disconnected from reality

Drummond Capital's Alex Cathcart says there are three reasons that justify the recent equities rally. And he also argues that investors must prepare their portfolios for a 'trinary' world in the wake of Covid-19.

Ben PowerJune 22, 2020

ESG

COVID-19, modern medicine and the hidden world of data

The University of Queensland is using big data from 350 hospitals in 49 countries to understand unique characteristics of the virus.

Laurence Parker-BrownJune 17, 2020

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