The 18th Fiduciary Investors Symposium took place in the Blue Mountains, NSW, from May 20 – 22, 2019
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The risk of a credit crunch is real and rising and with the housing market now falling sharply, and economic data deteriorating, Australia’s central bank signaled it will slash rates twice this year.
Total portfolio management is a portfolio completion and implementation strategy and all large asset owners should be looking to manage their portfolios this way, a panel at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium said.
The gradual exit of banks from business lending due to increased global financial regulation is driving attractive opportunities in private credit, but increased competition among non-bank lenders is causing looser covenants and higher leverage, according to Justin Ferrier, managing director, Asian private credit, at global asset manager BlackRock.
Australian power generation will continue to tilt towards renewables as more ageing coal-fired generators are taken offline and consumer and investor demand continues to grow.
Asset owners have been notoriously poor at drawing short-term investable insights from political and geopolitical events, but analysing long-term trends can be useful in helping investors prepare for future markets, experts say.
Investors need to be aware of the underlying exposures in alternative risk premia, particularly the equity risk, which can sometimes be hidden.
Reward for risk has shifted down across the world but is into negative territory in US equities and bonds, a rarely experienced scenario, Morningstar capital markets head Philip Straehl has…
President Xi Jinping, during his first visit to the US in 2012, called for a “new type of great-power relations in the 21st century”. This statement was taken to imply that…
