Time zones
The digital event will be run across the following time zones:
UTC -4 (New York): 8.00am - 11.00am
UTC +0 (London): 12.00pm - 3.00pm
UTC +1 (Paris): 1.00pm - 4.00pm
UTC +4 (Abu Dhabi): 4.00pm - 7.00pm
UTC +8 (Singapore): 8.00pm - 11.00pm
UTC +11 (Sydney): 11.00pm - 2.00am
Bringing together investors from all over the world the event will examine what the institutional investor’s portfolio of the future will look like given the large and varied challenges that investors face.
With the ongoing disruption of the COVID pandemic combined with uncertainty around inflation, correlations, volatility and a low yield environment, it is harder than ever to be an investor.
Through case studies the event will examine how investors can build robust portfolios to meet changing investment regimes and what the role of alternatives might be as the 60:40 portfolio dwindles as a viable portfolio construction premise.
It will look at how investors incorporate mega themes driving their portfolios including renewables and net zero ambitions, geopolitics and China, technology, healthcare and demographics.
Importantly it will challenge investors to think about what needs to change, and hasn’t yet, and how the crisis can be a catalyst for new and improved business practices and investment allocations.
The solution to slowing global growth lies in a new way of thinking, said Stephanie Kelton, a leading Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) scholar at Stony Brook University and senior economic advisor to presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders.
Low for ever, a risen China and climate change, are just some of the 10 changes set to sweep through the investment industry in the next 10 years, said Cyrus Taraporevala, president and chief executive of State Street Global Advisors. In his opening speech to 85 asset owners from 20 countries responsible for a combined $9 trillion assets under management at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Harvard University, Taraporevala described a brave new world where only the fittest survive.
“We take the S in ESG very seriously,” said John Adler, mayor’s trustee and advisor to the other mayoral appointees at New York City’s $200 billion five retirement systems. Speaking at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Harvard University, Adler highlighted the critical role investors play in protecting workers’ rights and ensuring a just transition as the global economy adapts to the implications of climate change.
