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Market Narratives
by Investment Magazine
Market Narratives is a podcast series hosted by Investment Magazine that features unorthodox conversations with thought leaders influencing the world of fiduciary investors. Investment Magazine is the leading publication for Australia's $3 trillion superannuation industry. It provides trusted news, analysis and editorial on the issues impacting superannuation funds, such as regulation, asset allocation, portfolio construction, governance, as they strive to secure better retirement outcomes for their members.
Episodes
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What the transformation of the labour market means to investors
Ageing populations in the west causing shrinking of the workforce, mismatches in jobs and qualifications, and the rise of new technology is all contributing to the transformation of the labour markets, according to PGIM’s latest megatrends report. Participant: • Jakob Wilhelmus, director at…
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Integrating biodiversity into investment decisions
Greater access to information from companies and associations on geospatial analysis combined with the acceleration and exponential destruction of the ecosystem has prompted biodiversity to becoming a hot topic in making investment decisions. Conexus Financial managing editor Julia Newbould talks...
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Food for thought
Our food system needs to be more productive and sustainable with increased demand, changing diets and an outdated production system. According to PGIM thematic research group director Jakob Wilhelmus, there are two main challenges in the food chain right now – our current food system is outdated...
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Growth equities to shine in 2023, if interest rates stabilise
Last year was a terrible year for growth equity investing but 2023 will be a year they can shine, as long as interest rates stabilise, according to Raj Shant, London-based managing director and equity portfolio specialist at Jennison Associates, which is a fundamental equities manager owned by PGIM.
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Portfolios to stay volatile for years with positive stock and bond correlation
Balanced portfolios will be more volatile without the “natural hedge” provided by a negative correlation between stocks and bonds, but diversification will remain a powerful tool to protect portfolios, according to Noah Weisberger, managing director in the Institutional Advisory & Solutions group...
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Not the time to shy away from emerging markets
With volatility a strong theme of markets and economies over 2022, some investors have de-risked their portfolios and lost their stomach for riskier emerging markets investments but Alex Khosla, emerging markets and Asia equities portfolio manager at sustainable investment manager Newton…
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Navigating the disruption in energy markets
The world is experiencing the results of an underinvestment in traditional oil/gas energy infrastructure which was compounded by Covid- 19, when some companies believed that peak oil demand had arrived pulling back even more on investment, then came the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the...
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Energy markets post-COVID, amid a conflict and in a decarbonising world
Tom Nelson, head of thematic equity at Ninety One, talks to Conexus Financial managing editor Julia Newbould about the extent of the shock to energy markets through the Ukraine War and how it will impact the transition to clean energy and how portfolio managers can invest in renewables and…
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Shift to positive stock-bond correlation could increase risk, reduce returns
A shift towards positive correlation between stocks and bonds is likely, and this phenomenon could persist for many years if history is a guide and this could lead to a “much more volatile world” for those trying to maintain balanced portfolios and may force investors to either raise their risk...
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Inflation volatility to drag on as world decouples into rival camps
Richard Bullock, senior geopolitical strategist at Newton Investment Management and Julia Newbould, managing editor at Conexus Financial talk about today’s economic environment. They discuss how it is the time for geopolitical strategists to start using all their tools – there is war in Ukraine…
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Reflections and learnings from a mega merger: Australian Retirement Trust
CEO Bernard Reilly and chair Don Luke of Australian Retirement Trust joined us at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in June 2022 for a fireside chat on how the fund is adapting and progressing post-merger, and what is next on the agenda for Australia’s newest mega fund. This session was hosted by...
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BHP chief executive Mike Henry on energy transition, commodities and global trends
In this live recording from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in June 2022, BHP chief executive, Mike Henry, explores the growing role of mined commodities in the global energy transition. This fireside chat was hosted by Amanda White, director of institutional content, Conexus Financial.
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Michelle Teng on liquidity requirements changing asset allocation for defined benefit funds
Michelle Teng, vice president and co-head of the private assets research program in PGIM’s Institutional Advisory & Solutions (IAS) group, speaks with Julia Newbould, acting editor at Investment Magazine about how climate change and early release schemes can affect super funds and the wider economy.
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Junying Shen on differing performance and cash flow characteristics among infrastructure asset sectors
Junying Shen, vice president and co-head of the private assets research program in the Institutional Advisory & Solutions (IAS) group at PGIM, speaks with Amanda White, editor of Top1000Funds.com (Investment Magazine’s sister publication), on how historical performance and cash flow…
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PGIM's Michelle Teng on the art of managing liquidity risk with private assets on the rise
Private assets are appealing for their attractive risk-return properties and diversification potential not available to investors limited to public markets, but as demand rises for private assets in the search for alpha, liquidity risk has become a growing concern for investors Michelle Teng…
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Aviva Investors' Aaron Grehan on risks, opportunities and the strategic portfolio opportunity in emerging market debt
While many asset allocators might view emerging market debt as volatile and a tactical investment, there's perhaps more strategic value in the asset class than many give it credit for, Aaron Grehan, Aviva Investors deputy head of Emerging Market Debt and hard currency portfolio manager explains…
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PGIM's Taimur Hyat on investing megatrends and how technology is transforming the services sector
Technologies that have decimated and transformed the retail and manufacturing sectors are finally 'knocking at the doors' of the services sector, Taimur Hyat, chief operating officer at PGIM explains in an interview with Amanda White. Hyat argues that institutional investors need to build a…
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PGIM's Harsh Parikh on real asset allocation sensitivities, time horizons and finding the right inflation outcome
Amid increasing allocations to real assets by asset owners and pension funds globally, PGIM's Harsh Parikh puts forward a framework for thinking which encourages funds to tailor their approach to each individual asset and avoid making assumptions by using off the shelf benchmarks and historical...
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Vista Equity Partners' David Breach on ecosystem, co-investments and the importance of diversity & inclusion in tech
In one of the first interviews with David Breach since he became President of Vista Equity Partners, the global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, Investment Magazine managing editor Matthew Smith talks through the ecosystem…
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Chasing yield, the reflation trade and emerging market debt | Paul McNamara
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Grow Inc, legacy systems and untangling the wires of super | Matthew Keeley
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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The strategic role of gold, drivers of value and the impact of the Basel III changes | Andrew Naylor
Australia and gold: The relevance of gold as a strategic asset 2021 - Australia edition | World Gold Council Beyond CPI: https://www.gold.org/goldhub/research/beyond-cpi-gold-as-a-strategic-inflation-hedge Mine to Market:...
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Maslow's hammer, beta activism and the modern portfolio theory paradox | Jon Lukomnik
Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters is co-authored with Professor James Hawley. He is also the co-author of "What They Do With Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us and How to Fix It" and “The New Capitalists”. All views expressed on this podcast are subject to...
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Liquidity cascades, the transformation of risk and deprogramming the cult | Corey Hoffstein
Here is Corey's paper mentioned in the podcast: "Liquidity Cascades: The Coordinated Risk of Uncoordinated Market Participants". It can be downloaded here: https://docsend.com/view/cx86pd8yyyea4isw The other paper mentioned is: “Retail Financial Innovation and Stock Market Dynamics: The Case of...
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The great rupture, the essence of money and the future of humanity | Viktor Shvets
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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The myth of private equity, market fallacies and the Stockholm syndrome | Jeff Hooke
Jeff Hooke is a broad-based finance and investment executive with global experience throughout the U.S., Europe, and the emerging markets of Latin America and Asia. He was a Managing Director of Focus Securities, an M&A-oriented boutique investment bank, prior to joining Carey. Earlier, Hooke...
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Flash boys, wisdom as an algorithm and outsmarting the globe | Noel Smith
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Passive flows, a self-perpetuating market and unpleasant simulations | Mike Green
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Learning art through experience, active allocations and adaptive decision making | Thad McCrindle
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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The road to REST, transformation and building teams for a new market regime | Andrew Lill
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Market forces, activism and capitalism as an adaptive system | Andrew Parry
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Strategy for manager selection, remote due diligence, expanding the co-investment program | Del Hart
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Whither the Fed, boondoggles and the 2-year old with a hammer | John Cochrane
John Cochrane is an American economist specialising in financial economics and macroeconomics. Formerly a professor of economics and finance at the University of Chicago, Cochrane serves as the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously...
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Machinations of macro, asset sleeves and allocation by outcomes not benchmarks | Mark Beardow and Andrew Baume
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Managing investor risks beyond the enterprise level, portfolio barriers and regenerative investment structures | Delilah Rothenberg and Taylor Sekhon
In previous podcasts in this series, we explored how the consolidation of capital flows and migration up the risk-return spectrum by institutional investors contributes to systematic risk. In this podcast, we explore the potential for institutional asset owners and allocators to redesign their...
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Member proximity, thematic exposures and getting on the bandwagon | Sean Henaghan
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Euroscepticism, pushing on a string and how to short the financial system | Alfonso Peccatiello
Alfonso is a passionate global macro investor offering a 10 000 foot view of the macro and market landscape. All opinions in this podcast and his substack are strictly his own and not financial advice. Alfonso's newsletter -> themacrocompass.substack.com Alfonso's twitter account ->...
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The jargon of alternatives, financial engineering and stress testing diversification | Scott Pappas
Scott joined Frontier from Cbus Super where he was the fund’s Senior Portfolio Manager of Absolute Return Strategies. He has extensive experience in derivatives management and was previously a part of Vanguard’s global investment strategy group, leading research across a range of investment…
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The evolution of manager research, alignment of interests and identifying the secret sauce | Nick Kelly
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Ides of stagflation, the three monkey problem and avoiding the inflation thief in the night | Nancy Davis
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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The curse of financial innovation, investment structures and systemic risk | Delilah Rothenberg and Raphaële Chappe
This episode explores the impact of institutional investors moving up the risk-return spectrum into higher-risk asset classes – such as leveraged buyout private equity, high yield bonds, leveraged loans, collateralized loan obligations, and venture capital. However, with huge sums of capital...
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The ghost of alpha, margin of safety and risk as a proxy for failure | Chris Schelling
Better than Alpha: Three Steps to Capturing Excess Returns in a Changing World The concept of beating markets is just a lot of hype. Successful investors don’t find “alpha,” they find value―and that’s what this book helps you do. Better Than Alpha provides the perspective, insights, and tools you...
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Avoiding the crypto winter, real economy use cases and the broad thesis on DeFi | James Kosmatos
James Kosmatos is currently an independent investment analyst working full time within the cryptocurrency industry, focusing on fundamental analysis of cryptocurrencies within the Decentralised Finance (DeFi) sector. James has been researching and investing in this asset class since early 2017…
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The institutionalisation of capital, consolidation of flows and oligopolies in asset management | Delilah Rothenberg and Denise Hearn
This episode explores how the market structure has changed over the past decades to become more institutionalised. While institutional investors have been able to take advantage of their size to negotiate improved corporate governance reforms from companies, they are also under pressure to...
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Regime shifts, rule-based frameworks and the humbling of the markets | Lorne Johnson
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Material risks, dark capital and the notion of fiduciary duty | Désirée Lucchese
At U Ethical, Désirée leads the evolution of the ethical investment framework and active engagement with investee companies, in collaboration with U Ethical’s investment team, key stakeholders and industry peers. Since 1985, U Ethical has developed a reputation for unwavering commitment to...
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Finding factors in narratives, wealth creation and a total family approach | Graeme Bibby
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Market cascades, dumb beta and populism in financial markets | Nader Naeimi
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Fiscal tantrums, investment discipline and liquidity in the eye of the beholder | Pilar Gomez-Bravo
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Allocating capital, market forces and the balancing act of risk | Rich Nuzum
All views expressed on this podcast are subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the views of Conexus Financial. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as investment advice.
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Market Narratives is a podcast series hosted by Investment Magazine that features unorthodox conversations with thought leaders influencing the world of fiduciary investors. Investment Magazine is the leading publication for Australia's $3 trillion superannuation industry. It provides trusted news, analysis and editorial on the issues impacting superannuation funds, such as regulation, asset allocation, portfolio construction, governance, as they strive to secure better retirement outcomes for their members.
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