Central banks shooting blanks?
There is a crisis of confidence concerning the functioning of central banks and the entire fiat monetary system
The medium-term outlook for fixed income and credit
If cash and fixed income aren’t delivering the expected results, and may not in the medium term, can global credit take a bigger role?
Oscar Fabian retires from VicSuper
Fabian evolved the investment strategy including a major restructure of the investment portfolio into a core and satellite model
New role at Cbus part of direct equities investing strategy
To help develop a direct equities investing strategy, Cbus has appointed Ramanan Sooriyakumar to the newly created role of senior equities research analyst.
Insourcing hints at move to Future Fund-type partnerships
Partnership models with fund managers could become more prevalent across the superannuation industry due to the internalisation of asset management, says academic at Frontier Advisors Annual Conference.
Super funds bet against Warren Buffett
By allocating to alternatives, super funds have gone down the opposite route to that of Warren Buffett in his bet against alternatives; and they have not been winning
HESTA awards $500 million mandate to IFM
HESTA has awarded a $500 million mandate to IFM for its recently launched global indexed equities strategy, principally because of cost
Eagleton to take over as Mather leaves for Schroders
Mercer has restructured its reporting lines with three businesses now reporting to Simon Eagleton following the departure of Graeme Mather
Exploring all their options
Leading investors and consultants from the big super funds met to discuss option strategies and discuss the practical and most emotive issues around portfolio insurance
Equip’s psychographic segmentation helps close gender gap
The 4 per cent reduction in the gap has been attributed to improved communication from the use of psychographic segmentation
The value proposition for factoring in ESG
What can SmartBeta learn from ESG and how can the two strategies work together to deliver value?
