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?
What role do absolute return strategies play in the portfolio and how active are the risk exposures?
There are some expectations that the coronavirus pandemic hit could see a reversal in US corporate profit margins that could lead to a lost decade for equity investors.
Are super funds re-evaluating the role of tail risk strategies in response?
With correlations between equities and government bonds varying significantly over time, do they still represent the core of any multi-asset portfolio, or do investors need to take more active and more risky directional bets?
How can investors identify the markets, asset classes and instruments most impacted and capture and risk-manage the opportunities?
The period of subdued volatility followed by COVID-19 caught many systematic and discretionary managers off guard. What strategies outperformed and where is extra due diligence required?
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