• How should generating high returns via material illiquid allocations be balanced with managing significant cash outflows?
• What approaches can help integrate sustainability and ESG within an investment program with a sceptical audience?
• Can a small investment team still be innovative?

This session takes place in the Banksia Room, Lilianfels

Lilianfels Resort and Spa
5/19 Lilianfels Avenue, Katoomba NSW 2780

• How to understand and invest amid unconventional economics, modern monetary theory, negative real rates and market volatility.
• Can central banks normalise their balance sheets and recalibrate interest rates, or is the cost of quantitative easing returning greater inequality and social discontent?  
• What are the greatest unappreciated risks in markets today?

• Is monetary policy still affective in influencing inflation and global growth?
• Can modern monetary theory work without threatening market stability?
• Why should investors view liquidity as an illusion when constructing their fixed income portfolio?

• What factors drive emerging market returns?
• Where does active management work in emerging markets?
• Can a developed market exposure capture emerging markets?

• How do asset owners develop and build strategies to complete a portfolio?
• What factors influence the investment process and the choice of instruments employed?
• What are the roles of liquidity, cost, efficiency in determining exposures?

• Do private markets offer a range of diversifying opportunities that are not available in public markets?
• How to balance return expectations with increased concerns about costs, governance, transparency and illiquidity.
• How to determine where to invest in the capital stack.

• How to interpret the dispersion of returns across strategies.
• What's the role of liquid alts and risk premia within asset allocation – and how do you determine the appropriate time horizon?
• Have crowding and market volatility limited prospects for the sector?

PAPER

Packed in like sardines 

• How will demographics change the core infrastructure opportunities?
• The role of consumer demand in driving meaning and purpose in investing
• Can the use of technology and impact increase member engagement?

• How to balance a fund’s investment philosophy and the risks – investment, allocation, business and career.
• In a post-Productivity Commission world, how can asset owners provide their expected member outcomes? Will more move to passive strategies?
• What fund structure will survive the dislocation?

PAPER

The Ambachtsheer letter

• How should asset owners assess reward for risk by asset class, both listed and unlisted?
• How to deal with products crossing over asset classes.
• Do asset owners need to dispense with classifications and if so, what should they adopt?

• How do firms approach cyber-security?
• How do quantum computers threaten cyber security?
• Some emerging solutions to keeping your data safe

• Are you equipped to manage a crisis?
• How to anticipate and avoid potential crisis scenarios and establish internal protocols for handling them.
• What techniques and strategies can equip staff to address a PR crisis?

• What is China’s endgame in the increasing use of AI and a social credit system to monitor its citizens?
• Is co-operation between the two military and cyber-super powers likely?
• Have we reached peak China economic and geopolitical influence?

• What are the inner workings of the internal decision-making processes?
• What is the process on forming and implementing capital market views?
• How to go about adding a manager or taking one out of the portfolio?

• Do organisations need to move away from the vision statement to the statement of purpose?
• What impact is the Hayne royal commission having on the industry?
• How can we build a common voice between the industry and retail funds to address incentives and foster better ethics?

• How should generating high returns via material illiquid allocations be balanced with managing significant cash outflows?
• What approaches can help integrate sustainability and ESG within an investment program with a sceptical audience?
• Can a small investment team still be innovative?

This session takes place in the Banksia Room, Lilianfels

Lilianfels Resort and Spa
5/19 Lilianfels Avenue, Katoomba NSW 2780

• How to understand and invest amid unconventional economics, modern monetary theory, negative real rates and market volatility.
• Can central banks normalise their balance sheets and recalibrate interest rates, or is the cost of quantitative easing returning greater inequality and social discontent?  
• What are the greatest unappreciated risks in markets today?

• Is monetary policy still affective in influencing inflation and global growth?
• Can modern monetary theory work without threatening market stability?
• Why should investors view liquidity as an illusion when constructing their fixed income portfolio?

• What factors drive emerging market returns?
• Where does active management work in emerging markets?
• Can a developed market exposure capture emerging markets?

• How do asset owners develop and build strategies to complete a portfolio?
• What factors influence the investment process and the choice of instruments employed?
• What are the roles of liquidity, cost, efficiency in determining exposures?

• Do private markets offer a range of diversifying opportunities that are not available in public markets?
• How to balance return expectations with increased concerns about costs, governance, transparency and illiquidity.
• How to determine where to invest in the capital stack.

• How to interpret the dispersion of returns across strategies.
• What's the role of liquid alts and risk premia within asset allocation – and how do you determine the appropriate time horizon?
• Have crowding and market volatility limited prospects for the sector?

PAPER

Packed in like sardines 

• How will demographics change the core infrastructure opportunities?
• The role of consumer demand in driving meaning and purpose in investing
• Can the use of technology and impact increase member engagement?

• How to balance a fund’s investment philosophy and the risks – investment, allocation, business and career.
• In a post-Productivity Commission world, how can asset owners provide their expected member outcomes? Will more move to passive strategies?
• What fund structure will survive the dislocation?

PAPER

The Ambachtsheer letter

• How should asset owners assess reward for risk by asset class, both listed and unlisted?
• How to deal with products crossing over asset classes.
• Do asset owners need to dispense with classifications and if so, what should they adopt?

• How do firms approach cyber-security?
• How do quantum computers threaten cyber security?
• Some emerging solutions to keeping your data safe

• Are you equipped to manage a crisis?
• How to anticipate and avoid potential crisis scenarios and establish internal protocols for handling them.
• What techniques and strategies can equip staff to address a PR crisis?

• What is China’s endgame in the increasing use of AI and a social credit system to monitor its citizens?
• Is co-operation between the two military and cyber-super powers likely?
• Have we reached peak China economic and geopolitical influence?

• What are the inner workings of the internal decision-making processes?
• What is the process on forming and implementing capital market views?
• How to go about adding a manager or taking one out of the portfolio?

• Do organisations need to move away from the vision statement to the statement of purpose?
• What impact is the Hayne royal commission having on the industry?
• How can we build a common voice between the industry and retail funds to address incentives and foster better ethics?