While personal and professional agendas make it almost impossible to have a balanced debate about the SG, there are a few key criteria that any analysis – including that of the Retirement Income Review – should acknowledge according to the Conexus Institute’s David Bell.
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This year’s single-best trade was Chinese mid-cap semiconductor and tech stocks, according to UBS O’Connor’s Kevin Russell. This illustrates how China’s domestic consumption economy allows it to combat any trade wars with the US.
APRA’s heatmap will be a catalyst for changes to partnerships and structures super funds use to execute alternatives and hedge funds strategies if discussions happening at the moment are anything to go by, Cambridge Associates’s Travis Schoenleber has said.
Impact of central bank policy is plain to see in credit markets where the biggest concern is linked to future possibilities for economic-driven growth – GSO-Blackstone’s Dwight Scott runs the numbers during a presentation at Investment Magazine’s Absolute Returns Conference.
The ongoing de-globalisation trend is certain to keep global macro strategies in the frame, with gold, currency and interest rates all likely to follow the cues of geopolitical and economic events, Graham Capital’s Pablo Calderini explains.
While Sunsuper’s access to cash and public market meant its alternatives allocations weren’t tapped for liquidity to facilitate early release payments, Tomlinson said he could take advantage of some more liquid ‘hedge fund-type’ investments during tumbling markets.
“Everyone loves to hear about culture now,” according to Willis Towers Watson’s Sara Rejal, who noted during a panel discussion at the Absolute Returns Conference Digital 2020 conference on Wednesday that funds are interested in a broader due diligence particularly with its hedge fund and alternative strategy partners.
What are the outstanding issues and considerations arising from using a standardised industry approach?
The U.S. structured credit market is now approaching pre-crisis asset levels—but with a very different, and largely untested, investor base.
Do conventional investment processes and risk management apply to the Chinese market, and how sustainable is this market environment?
Extreme market conditions are almost a daily occurrence, leading investors to question whether trend-following can still be a diversifier in this environment. Are there systems that survive this environment of V-shaped price patterns and heavy kurtosis?
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