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Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... said. The average score of all the other funds, however, remained flat from last year at 61%. "Sadly, we're seeing geopolitics and trade tensions taking over as key concerns of sovereign funds, some of which are turning more domestic, isolated and opaque," ...

Commodities 'crucial' for portfolio resilience: QIC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... of non-commodity risks, such as equity or interest rate risk." QIC said that in an environment shaped by inflation, geopolitics and rising uncertainty, "commodity futures offer institutional investors a combination of diversification, inflation protection ...

Next decade could bring back the conservative portfolio

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... era of ultra-low interest rates has now passed, investors need to think differently around portfolio construction. "Geopolitics, the backlash against inequality, the backlash against a lack of opportunity is going to cause pressures which lead to higher ...

Trump inaugurated as 47th President

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... China, Canada and Mexico." RaboResearch Australia and New Zealand general manager Stefan Vogel said the impacts of geopolitics and potential new trade tariffs were expected to be increasingly felt across the global food and agribusiness supply chain ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... of it is also fuelled by a lot of fiscal monetary stimulus, which drives inflation a little bit. And I think that geopolitics is very complicated. It's scary. It's complicated - how we're going to deal with Russia, Iran, North Korea, and ...

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' ...
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