Incorporating infrastructure opportunities into an investment mandate is a lot more complex than it used to be, as funds open their minds to new categorisations while keeping an eye on infrastructure’s traditional role of preserving capital, a group of experts has discussed.
This panel discussed the challenges of the period and how each chief executive has tried to manage expectations, performance and empathy.
Greenwashing is pervasive and it’s no mystery why, according to Professor Stephen Kotkin, who says governments continue to sign on to mandates they cannot meet, and investors pledge commitments they cannot redeem, creating a lucrative industry in greenwashing.
This session explored the best practice that has been established in allowing people to best navigate the problems faced by insurance professionals.
Opening address by co-founding event partner, AIA chief executive Australia and New Zealand, Damien Mu
Rates, regulation and redistribution are all increasing. Are investors entering a new regime of higher inflation and volatility?
In this exclusive keynote David Bell, Executive Director of The Conexus Institute, released new research on how funds can not only live with the YFYS performance test, but demonstrate a pathway forward which is consistent with asset owner best practice, namely total portfolio management.
Prior to joining Blackstone, Joe Dowling led Brown University’s endowment fund, as chief executive and previously a chief investment officer. Over trailing three, five, and 10-year periods, Brown endowment is placed in the top ventile of its peers, according to data maintained by Cambridge Associates. This session drew on his experience to discuss the lessons … Read more
This session covered the impact from the suggested benchmarking to passive indices reforms and the unintended consequences. It looked at how industry is facing into these challenges and what the path ahead for the asset class looks like.
A capital allocator’s dilemma in a zero-yield world with higher inflation is how to construct a robust, balanced portfolio that can also withstand equity-market sell-offs.
Funds have already begun to start removing or making plans to start removing occupational exclusions in advance of a review flagged by Treasury in its latest YFYS regs reveal.
In episode 118, Matthew Smith speaks with David Breach, president Vista Equity Partners
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