Global Investment Institute

Dylan Ross, Managing Director, Portfolio Manager & Head of Asset-Backed Finance, TCW | Dylan discusses how TCW manages its ABF investments, from portfolio construction through to risk management, with a focus on ensuring client capital is protected. He outlines the key areas of investment focus for their ABF platform, explains the rationale behind those areas of focus, and explores how the pla...

Tom Patrick, Partner, Head of Healthcare Property, Barwon Investment Partners | Tom discusses the key indicators suggesting why the current environment is an inflection point in the property cycle, how investors should think about the role of core real estate today, given the competition faced from fixed income and why alternative real estate sectors like healthcare property are gaining traction....

William Vettorato, Managing Director, Head of Evergreen Fund Strategy, EQT Group | William discusses how investors around the world are using evergreens as a solution for overcoming accessibility issues and the complexity involved with private markets investing. He explains that Australian investors have been at the forefront of adopting evergreens and shares his views on what investors should con...

Graeme Bibby, Chief Investment Officer, Anseres Capital | Graeme provides an introduction to Anseres Capital and how it enables access to institutional-grade investment management for private wealth clients. He also shares Anseres’ investment philosophy, how it holds up through volatility in markets and where he sees the most compelling investment opportunities in the near term. Listen to the full...

Kim Morison, Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, Argyle Capital Partners | Kim discusses how investing in water rights works in Australia, including how it enables farmers to unlock capital from their balance sheets, he explains how water rights are valued and the key drivers of long-term returns in the asset class. Listen to the full interview where we ask Kim:      - How does investing in water...

Brendan Bosman, Managing Director, Pretium | Brendan discusses the drivers behind the demand for non-bank lenders in financing U.S. home building. He explains the size of the opportunity set for investors to fund construction and development and the parts of the market and the types of builders they focus on, and why. Brendan also shares how Pretium is uniquely positioned in originating, underwrit...

Patrik Edsparr, Chief Investment Officer & Co-Founder, Tor Investment Management | Patrik discusses the dynamics playing out across private credit markets of Asia Pacific, the challenges with navigating the opportunity set across the region’s many jurisdictions and what the key ingredients are to achieving success. Patrik also shares his perspectives on credit risk and areas of vulnerability i...

Andrew Garrett, Investment Director, Perpetual Wealth Management | Andrew discusses his team’s investment philosophy and how it feeds into their approach to portfolio construction, including risk management and generating investment ideas. Andrew also shares how their investment strategy is adapting to changing market conditions in alignment with their protect and grow approach to managing client...

Daniel Kelly, Chief Investment Officer, Viola Private Wealth | Daniel discusses the changing landscape across Australia’s wealth management industry and the move toward an endowment-style investment approach. He shares how the composition of the traditional 60-40 portfolio is changing to comprise a different mix of investments today, and the drivers behind this evolution toward investing in altern...

Kevin Marchetti, Chief Investment Officer & Head of US Direct Lending, Man Group | Kevin discusses the private credit landscape and what investors should focus on as the lending environment becomes more complex. He highlights opportunities in the U.S. core middle market, including diversification benefits, attractive relative value, and reduced competition. Kevin also outlines the key question...

Nick Griffin, Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Munro Partners | Nick discusses why the stock market is not the economy and that there are many losers and only a few winners. He explains why his team focuses on investing in structurally growing companies and the main characteristics to look for in identifying those that will be the long-term winners. Nick also shares his views on st...

Mike Cowell, Portfolio Manager, Credit Income, Aware Super | Mike discusses the role of private credit in modern portfolio construction, and how he is positioning his private credit portfolio for emerging opportunities and risks. He explains the key considerations he takes into account when allocating to an external manager and shares what makes a successful long term LP-GP partnership. Listen to...

Laurent De Greef, Senior Vice President, Head of Portfolio Strategy, D. E. Shaw Investment Management | Laurent discusses the drivers behind the relative size of the U.S. in global equity markets and shares a framework investors can apply for understanding risks in a global equity portfolio. Laurent explains the implications of the U.S. market being heavily concentrated in a few large names and wh...

Willis Tsai, Head of Global Equities, Nuveen | Willis shares how he thinks about portfolio construction across the diverse global equities opportunity set. He explains why now is a particularly compelling moment for active management and highlights what separates managers who succeed over the long term from those who don’t. Willis also discusses the most interesting ideas he is exploring today in...

Bryan Jenkins, Head of Portfolio Strategy & Research, Hamilton Lane | Bryan discusses the private equity secondaries market, the drivers of its explosive growth experienced in recent years and the main motivations why investors have been allocating to the asset class. He explains what investors should be looking for to identify best-in-class PE managers and highlights the most important risks...

Michel Sznajer, Portfolio Manager, Ecofin at Redwheel | Michel discusses how investors can access emerging opportunities from the electrification theme and how investors can adapt their portfolio allocation to capitalise as the electrification theme accelerates. Michel also shares his perspectives on the role of renewables in a “Trump-led” world and explains how A.I. is changing the game for utili...

Francisco de Juan, Managing Partner & EQMC Chief Investment Officer, Alantra EQMC Asset Management | Francisco discusses what makes European small caps an attractive hunting ground for investors. He explains the valuation gap that exists between European small caps relative to both, history and large cap peers and the role of M&A activity in accelerating returns within the asset class. He...

Sebastian Schiele, DWS Global Head, Index Mandates & Solutions, Xtrackers by DWS | Sebastian explains enhanced indexing and where it fits between passive and active strategies. He discusses the different types of enhanced indexing approaches that are available and why they are gaining traction with Australian institutional investors. Sebastian also covers how enhanced indexing can help investo...

Eric Van Nostrand, Chief Investment Officer, Lazard Asset Management | Eric discusses the role of quantitative investing in emerging market equities and how it can adapt to regime shifts without overreacting to short-term noise and macro interference to more reliably generate alpha. Listen to the full interview which covers: - How does limited analyst and media coverage in emerging markets create...

Phil Strano, Head of Australian Credit Research, Yarra Capital Management | Phil shares his views on why private credit has an important role to play in portfolios but cautions that the asset class is seeing pockets of stress emerging, as it reaches saturation point. He explains why investors’ aim should be to build multi-sector credit portfolios that are idiosyncratic in nature, with diversificat...

Laurence Taylor, Equity Solutions Portfolio Manager, T. Rowe Price | Laurence discusses T. Rowe Price’s integrated equity approach, including its distinct characteristics and competitive advantages. He explains how the integrated equity process adapts during periods of market volatility and the role technology plays in the investment process and decision-making to deliver desired outcomes for clie...

Alan Coffey, Director, Private Companies, Baillie Gifford | Alan discusses how the continued growth of private companies is reshaping the opportunity set for long-term investors. He explains how Baillie Gifford translates its 100+ years of growth investing heritage into advantage in accessing and navigating private market opportunities today, as more companies remain private for longer. Listen to...

Toby Goodworth, PhD, Managing Director, Head of Liquid Markets, bfinance | Toby discusses active currency overlays, including how they differ from a conventional strategic FX hedge, the challenges investors typically face in implementation and their role in the context of the broader portfolio. He addresses what the ideal market conditions are for utilising active currency overlays and explains wh...

Adam Nankervis, Portfolio Manager & Partner, Oak Hill Advisors | Adam discusses the evolution of credit markets and how private credit interacts with the high yield and leveraged loan markets. He shares his perspectives on where he sees opportunities and risks in alternative credit and explains how a multi-asset credit approach enables investors to capture relative value and effectively naviga...

Ian Harnett, PhD, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Strategist, Absolute Strategy Research | Ian discusses his views on Canadian PM Mark Carney’s remarks about a global ‘rupture’, the ‘weaponisation of capital’, how investors can respond to a world of increased ‘state capitalism’ and unpacks what a world of more ‘inflation tolerance’ means for Australian institutional investors. Listen to the full inte...