Determining an investment strategy when the odds are stacked against you
Political shocks and risks; unpredictable market reactions; a challenging global economic environment and a complex restrictive regulatory framework - investment experts share the investment path they are taking to beat the odds.
- What poses the biggest threat/opportunity to your balance sheet?
- As the sustained low return conditions rumble on, how do we deal with the portfolio implications of low returns as a long-term future?
- Brexit: From an ALM context, strategically, what are the factors to consider when planning for a hard Brexit?
- Trumponomics: How should we change our asset management approach in response to a Trump administration?
- Monetary policies vs fiscal policies - what role will they play for interest rates going forward?
- Bond sell –off as QE is replaced by fiscal policy? The end of the credit cycle?
- Low growth and continued volatility? Re-emergence of inflation?
- China – should insurers in the West be concerned by Chinese rivals' expanding investment activities?
- Lessons from Brexit and Trump about how the markets may react to future events?
- What asset allocation innovations are emerging now that we are more comfortable with the parameters of SII?
Panellists:
Jelle van der Giessen, Chief Investment Officer, NN GROUP
Erik Ranberg, CIO, GJENSIDIGE
Erick Müller, Head of Product and Investment Strategy, MUZINICH & CO
Moderator: Asa Gibson, Editor, Insurance Asset Risk