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Top asset owners return to growth: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... study. "Asset owners globally are navigating a series of waves and occasional storms - from market volatility and geopolitics to technology and structural changes in societies and economies," Thinking Ahead Institute director Jessica Gao said. "Macro ...

Future Fund delivers strong 11.9% return

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... continued to invest in line with the analysis of market conditions expressed in our position papers, most recently, Geopolitics: The Bedrock of the New Investment Order." In the paper, Future Fund discussed a range of paradigm shifts it believes are ...

VanEck to launch defence ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024
... an asset class, defence companies are underrepresented on the ASX and in most investor portfolios. "With heightened geopolitics driving increased government spending around the world, we have seen interested from investors and had requests from the advised ...

Morningstar warns of stretched valuations in Australian equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... share prices for banks and other recent winners, including consumer cyclicals, REITs, and tech stocks," he said. "Geopolitics and global conflicts, China's stimulus inflating commodities, and an acceleration in deglobalisation, such as shifting supply ...

Ontario Teachers' names chief investment officers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024
... Investment Strategy (GIS) department, which builds conviction on responses to global shifts, including those related to geopolitics, sustainability, and technology. He will also proactively partner across the organisation to manage Ontario Teachers' ...

Janus Henderson launches new fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2023
... fund will meet client demand for access to the ever-changing asset class. "Forces such as the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitics have been key catalysts in spurring deglobalisation and the structural changes that we see in our global economy today," he ...

Top global trends impacting portfolio construction

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2023
... executive director infrastructure Marigold Look discussed current trends in investment and their impact. Wrigley said geopolitics has led investors to adopt a very different view of the world. "It's already happened with COVID-19 and is most pronounced ...

Recession risk is receding: Natixis IM

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023
... won't be met until 2025, and 9% believe they won't be met until at least 2026. When it comes to future headwinds, geopolitics (72%) and central bank policy (72%) drew the strongest consensus. However, a quarter of strategists said geopolitics ...

Time to diversify global alts allocations: Telfer

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023
... diversification is very important, she said. "When we survey investors globally, we hear again and again that tension in geopolitics is the number one concern," she explained. "Also, the Australian market is only so big. So, as our pension fund wallets ...

Family office goals at odds with reality: UBS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
... are highly advanced. Elsewhere, broad findings on Asia Pacific show 31% of family offices say their top concern is geopolitics. Their top investment theme is healthtech, with 76% likely to invest, and they show a strong home bias as 51% of their assets ...