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David Chaplin

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David Chaplin is a reputed financial services journalist and publisher of Investment News NZ.

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WTW wins NZSuper review race (again)

WTW has won the job of carrying out a statutory probe into the policies and operational and investment processes of New Zealand’s sovereign wealth fund for an unprecedented repeat performance.

David Chaplin | 7th Feb 2024 | More
Sovereign funds recover mojo, on track for US$71 trillion by 2030

Global government-linked investment vehicles clawed back about US$1.4 trillion of 2022 losses by the end of last year on an expected path to more than US$70 trillion by 2030.

David Chaplin | 12th Jan 2024 | More
Investors fret politics over inflation in financial fear gauge

Geopolitical tension, US electoral uncertainty and a commercial real estate crash loom as the fastest-rising risks for the financial services industry next year, according to the latest industry poll by securities post-trade giant, DTCC.

David Chaplin | 12th Jan 2024 | More
Expect less, exclude more: Stern issues ESG warning  

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds should forget fiduciary duty, dump ratings and adopt extreme exclusions in a radical revamp of the investment overlay proposed in a US academic paper.

David Chaplin | 17th Nov 2023 | More
NSZ touts internal teams, switches on AI manager

The NZ Superannuation Fund (NZS) now manages about 30 per cent of its assets internally, with some of them in the capable hands of a new artificially intelligent portfolio manager dubbed “Keorangi”.

David Chaplin | 3rd Nov 2023 | More
  • Brandywine beats bond blues as fixed interest gets interesting

    Brandywine Global is conservatively positioned as it eyes volatile conditions and surging demand for fixed income solutions following a massive macro-economic reversal.

    David Chaplin | 25th Aug 2023 | More
    No alpha in ESG: Scientific Beta

    The supposed benchmark-beating powers of ESG have more to do with investors’ exposure to well-known factors rather than any sustainable secret sauce, according to quant house Scientific Beta.

    David Chaplin | 23rd Aug 2023 | More
    Huxford to go as ANZ taps Mercer, BlackRock for backup

    The chief investment officer of New Zealand’s largest non-government fund manager will leave at the end of this year after it revealed new potential arrangements with Mercer and BlackRock.

    David Chaplin | 16th Aug 2023 | More
    Bull markets good, bear markets great in global insto funds game

    Vanguard usurped BlackRock as the biggest institutional fund manager in 2022 during a year where most firms went backwards, according to the latest Pensions & Investments global survey.

    David Chaplin | 21st Jun 2023 | More
    ‘Substance-less concepts’: ESG, AI, valuation and other whales in the room

    ESG is the “emptiest” idea, according to Aswath Damodaran, while AI will morph into higher costs for companies overall with no competitive advantage in a world where the technology is ubiquitous.

    David Chaplin | 7th Jun 2023 | More
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