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Aviva Investors maps out a strategy for the next downturn

Of all the big questions investors need to address across various time periods, the biggest, over the short- to medium-term at least, is undoubtedly ‘where are we in the cycle?’. While difficult to answer with precision, the strong consensus is ‘late’. What to do about it is the next big question. Aviva Investors – the…

Investor Strategy News | 22nd Sep 2019 | More
Big fiduciary roles in transition: IFM and Sunsuper

Brett Himbury is retiring as chief executive of IFM Investors and Bernard Reilly is making a comeback as the next chief executive of Sunsuper. The two moves juxtapose neatly. They also indicate the human strains of running big financial organisations. In the profit-for-member sector you don’t get paid several million dollars a year to run…

Investor Strategy News | 22nd Sep 2019 | More
Why funds should act now on retirement products

The CIPR legislation, whereby big super funds need to have a retirement products strategy in place by July next year and the ability to implement it by July 2022, has taken what seems like forever to get going. But funds should not take a breather because of the time extension they have been offered, according…

Investor Strategy News | 22nd Sep 2019 | More
Custodians move up the chain with front-office services

The days of custodians being confined to the backoffice of big super funds and managers are long gone. Through new services, they have moved up the chain through the middle office and, now, the front office. They’ll be running the reception desk, too, soon. The latest development is from Northern Trust in the US which…

Investor Strategy News | 22nd Sep 2019 | More
Euromoney likely to exit media and conferences

Euromoney, the London Stock Exchange-listed information company, which recently pulled out of its conference interests in Australia and New Zealand, has now decided to review the entirety of its asset management division, which includes the global publication Institutional Investor. Euromoney, announced to the LSE last week, in a one-line statement, that it was reviewing its asset…

Investor Strategy News | 22nd Sep 2019 | More
  • Can managers predict the future? Maybe not. It’s complicated.

    Frontier Advisors has recently quizzed the many managers with which it deals about their predictive capabilities. And, subsequently, this has raised questions about funds’ inhouse investment strategies, too. Investments are not as easy as APRA seems to think. A client note to be published today (September 23) by Frontier says that predicting short-term, annual, performance…

    Investor Strategy News | 22nd Sep 2019 | More
    China versus America: between a rock and a hard place

    China is our biggest trading partner. The US is our biggest investor. What do we do when they have a spat? From an investor’s viewpoint we should take a disciplined approach to analyse the likely outcomes from the dispute. And they are not as bad as you might think. According to Chi Lo, the senior…

    Investor Strategy News | 22nd Sep 2019 | More
    The big story, says DWS – how to cope with the downturn

    They may look unstable at the moment, given the uncertainties in the developed versus the developing world, but emerging markets probably represent the best prospects for our future. The big “contrarian trades” at the moment are international versus US and value versus growth. DWS (formerly known as Deutsche Asset Management) which has a long track…

    Investor Strategy News | 22nd Sep 2019 | More
    Risk-free report finds ‘all good’ at NZ Super

    It’s all boringly good at the NZ Superannuation Fund (NZS): another year of bumper returns; another $1 billion taxpayer top-up; and, another glowing independent assessment report, this time courtesy of Willis Towers Watson (WTW). But after scraping back the thin veneer of investment outperformance, strong governance, operational excellence and best-in-show practices, WTW did reveal a…

    Investor Strategy News | 22nd Sep 2019 | More
    Big themes in investments – get on board or miss the train

    For alternatives managers and their super fund clients, in particular, the five biggest themes in the investment world are here and deserving of attention. Simon Lorne, vice chair and chief legal officer of New York-based Millennium Management spelled them out last week. Lorne, who is also global chair of AIMA, the alternative investment management body,…

    Investor Strategy News | 15th Sep 2019 | More
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