Reigniting innovation and technology in real estate
This session covers these disruptive platforms and solutions as they change how property is being used, maintained and transformed today.
Tanya Do, Lily Kao: Materiality, incorporating ESG and resilience across real estate assets
This session considers the latest workaround investment stewardship and embedding the UN sustainable development goals.
Al Rabil: Resilience real estate: Where are the survivors?
This session discusses the state of play and how the alternative real estate classes have performed through the pandemic.
Bianca Ray: Socially distant shopping: How does retail need to evolve?
This session explores the spectrum of opportunities as landlords consider how to reinvent their occupant mix and leverage transport hubs to support urban regeneration.
Kathleen McCarthy: Tailwinds and headwinds: Navigating real estate post-Covid
This session compares and contrast the overarching themes affecting global real estate and how investors may seek to adjust their strategy?
Managing the Portfolio Challenges within Real Estate
This session covers the asset owners’ learnings as they dealt with the lack of liquidity in unlisted fund structures, the volatility of public and private valuations, obstacles with due diligence and an impending challenge of benchmarking performance.
Property value dislocations push allocators into unfamiliar territories
Aware Super is being more direct in its real assets investment strategy, a new approach that coincides with unique conditions for deal execution, a panel of asset allocators have discussed.
IOOF touts advantage on direct to customer strategy
IOOF CEO Renato Mota described the direct to customer channel as the “third pillar” of member engagement likely to emerge in light of government reforms next to workplace arrangements and financial adviser referrals.
Chris West on thinking about risk outside the box
Peer risk, fee constraints, and overall career risk are all factors weighing heavily on the minds of individuals on investment teams at super funds, the former WA Super CIO said.
Super system disadvantages middle income earners: Mercer’s David Knox
A universal pension scheme could result in “taking some off the top” by essentially removing or tapering tax concessions for higher income earners and redistributing these savings to middle income earners, Mercer’s David Knox highlighted.
Sovereign wealth funds will change digital economy: Winston Ma
The world’s sovereign wealth funds are using their combined $30 trillion war chest to build in-house teams and become more active investors in infrastructure, communications and the tech sector. Multiple mandates are becoming the norm according to Winston Ma, with strategic development goals as important as investment returns.
