This session explores structural risks, the relative value of real estate debt over other credit asset classes, and how private credit foster more sustainable real estate.
Over $130 billion in US assets defaulted in 2020, with certain issuers continuing to be impacted by the economic slowdown. Industries such as media, telecom and retail characterised by high leverage and are experiencing meaningful structural or secular changes.
In this session, we discuss whether there are a secular trend and tailwinds increasing the demand for private credit by both investors and borrowers; and discuss the challenges and opportunities to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Unlike the financial crisis, this downturn’s unique feature is the wide variation in industry exposure to the virus — constraints on spending, occupational health risks, and geographical variation in the virus outbreak will continue to affect industries differently.
This session explores the market environment and challenges associated with reconciling structural change from liquidity concerns and the ability to leverage mean reversion in ascertaining fair value in uncertain times.
This session explores this current market environment, focusing on increasing demand to invest sustainability presents investors’ challenges and opportunities.
Strategies that have a lower alignment to the performance test benchmarks could become high risk for trustees as they could lead to failure of the test, over certain periods, despite longer-term outperformance, Mercer’s Barlow points out.
‘The tide here is very, very high’, Lazard Asset Management’s Arif Joshi describes the influx of capital into emerging markets seeking yield in 2021.
‘So few foreigners speak, read or write Mandarin fluently, so by definition all the information you’re getting is second-hand,’ Aberdeen Standard’s Donald Amstad says when it comes to assessing Chinese bonds.
This session explores asset owners’ thinking about applying the performance tests and the potential unintended consequences as we enter a possible inflexion point around capital market assumptions.
Recent market stress episodes have driven bond yields to new lows in many markets. With monetary policy now effectively dead, do government bonds still play an important role in defensive portfolios or are there new strategies and assets we can consider?
This session explores the structural change that is occurring in the Australian banking sector and its impact on lending markets.
The investment intelligence behind Australia’s largest asset owners and their teams
In-depth interviews with leaders, experts and visionaries in the institutional investment community
Updates on the latest industry policy developments and regulation
The challenges and innovations of custody, technology and operational due diligence
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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this land upon which Conexus Financial sits, the Cadigal of the Eora Nation. We recognise their continuing connection and unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and community. We pay our deepest respects to them and their culture, and to Elders both past and present.
