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1 month ago | 
professionalplanner.com.au | Simon Hoyle |Aleks Vickovich |Chris Dastoor
Such is the nature of memory in Australia’s superannuation system that, in the long and increasingly brutal admin debate, the name “Superpartners” has not been invoked once. Founded in 1983, Superpartners was an industry fund-owned administration platform that, at its height, handled 6.3 million super accounts across 700,000 employers totalling $80 billion in assets.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
top1000funds.com | Aleks Vickovich |AMANDA WHITE |Simon Hoyle |Darcy Song
Douglas Rivers, chief scientist at pollster YouGov, said data coming out of the current US presidential election confirms significant cultural and demographic shifts that are reshaping the political map. Rivers told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium that the once-popular “demographics is destiny” mantra predicting permanent centre-left majorities has lost meaning in the Trump era.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
top1000funds.com | Simon Hoyle |Darcy Song |Jack SMith |Jack Smith |Aleks Vickovich
The most underrated area of innovation in artificial intelligence is not in computing, nor is it in the development of algorithms or techniques for data collection. It is in the human ability to recast problems in terms of predictions. Leading economist and academic Ajay Agrawal told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Toronto that it helps to think of AI and machine learning as “simply a drop in the cost of prediction”.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
top1000funds.com | Darcy Song |Simon Hoyle |Jack SMith |Jack Smith |Aleks Vickovich
Much can be said about Canada’s so-called Maple 8 funds and their pension models which have provided stellar learning materials, with pupils like California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and others around the world.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
top1000funds.com | Simon Hoyle |Darcy Song |Aleks Vickovich |Amanda White
Two high profile pioneers of the $4.1 trillion Canadian pension industry have warned the founding principles that have made Canadian funds exemplars around the world are under attack. Independent board member and former Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board chief executive officer Mark Wiseman told the Top1000funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Toronto that principles set out in the early days of the development of the system are “being assailed”.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
top1000funds.com | Darcy Song |Jack SMith |Jack Smith |Aleks Vickovich |Simon Hoyle
If managers want to reinforce their long-term investor bona fides they should adopt appropriate time horizons for the investments they make, disclose more about how long they hold assets, and quit paying themselves based on short-term results. Only then will the interests of asset owners and the managers they employ be truly aligned. In a world where short-termism is becoming increasingly prevalent, uncovering the truth around market value and company governance is increasingly difficult.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
top1000funds.com | Jack SMith |Jack Smith |Aleks Vickovich |Simon Hoyle |Darcy Song
Understanding the drivers of your portfolio risk and return, and then using that information to more dynamically adjust the portfolio, is one of the benefits of the total portfolio approach according to CPP's Manroop Jhooty, whose total fund management team is exploring whether to include emerging factors in portfolio design.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
top1000funds.com | Aleks Vickovich |Simon Hoyle |Darcy Song |AMANDA WHITE
Pictet Asset Management head of private debt Andreas Klein says “mainstream” private credit investments have probably run their course as buyout activity decreases and global regulators up their oversight of the booming asset class. Instead, investors should consider “micro-niches” such as litigation and biosciences financing, he argues, but warns these emerging corners of the market come with hidden and unique risks attached.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
investmentmagazine.com.au | Aleks Vickovich
Vanguard Super has publicly backed the retention of the annual performance test, as a growing number of funds also warm to the status quo after tweaking their strategic asset allocation to make sure they don't fail. But while it may keep funds’ compliance officers happy, the current test is not in members' best interests, argue a number of academics and researchers who advocate for a multi-metric approach.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
top1000funds.com | Simon Hoyle |Sarah Rundell |Amanda White |Aleks Vickovich
A clear focus on and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is helping the $480 billion CalPERS support its senior staff and managers to optimise the performance of the teams it already has, as well as providing a valuable framework for attracting and recruiting a diverse range of new talent.
