SUITABLE FOR: Superannuation fund and investment committee chairs.

The forum addresses how super fund and investment committee chairs balance their increasing range of responsibilities, including board governance, strategy and delegation, investment decision- making, the economic environment, risk management and strategic asset allocation.

SUITABLE FOR: Heads of real assets, Portfolio managers, CIOs, Asset consultants

The Infrastructure and Real Estate Conference is designed to examine how CIOs and specialist portfolio managers are determining their exposure to the evolving classes of infrastructure and real estate.

SUITABLE FOR: Investment operations managers, CFO’S, COO’S, Senior operations staff from superannuation funds, fund managers, custodians and other providers

The conference is for all those involved in the middle office of an institutional investor. The event offers leading content from industry experts and unparalleled networking opportunities. It brings a practical focus to the challenges and innovations shaping investment operations in Australia.

SUITABLE FOR: Institutional investors, chairs of investment committees and specialist consultants from the world’s largest pension, sovereign wealth and endowment funds.

The Fiduciary Investors Symposiums are designed to examine the management of fiduciary assets in both investment strategy and implementation.

SUITABLE FOR: CIOs, Heads of asset classes, Chairs of investment, Asset consultants

The Fiduciary Investors Symposiums are designed to examine the management of fiduciary assets in both investment strategy and implementation, including the latest thinking relating to asset allocation, risk management, beta management and alpha generation.

SUITABLE FOR: Licensee and dealer group heads.

The annual Licensee Summit is recognised as the key event for the leaders of financial planning dealer groups and licensees to meet and engage with peers and colleagues to discuss the issues that underpin great businesses and the delivery of great advice.

SUITABLE FOR: Financial planning practice owners and principals.

The Professional Planner | Financial Planning Association Best Practice Forum taps into the experience and insights of practice owners, principals, consultants and other industry participants to deliver leading-edge thinking on financial planning.

SUITABLE FOR: Financial planning practice owners and principals.

The Professional Planner | Financial Planning Association Best Practice Forum taps into the experience and insights of practice owners, principals, consultants and other industry participants to deliver leading-edge thinking on financial planning.

SUITABLE FOR: Superannuation fund employees in executive roles or as a trustee or consultant.

The largest annual forum exploring the insurance trends affecting industry super funds. With a program developed by group insurance professionals, the event covers innovation in product design and the claims experience.

SUITABLE FOR: Heads of fixed income, Portfolio managers, CIOs, Asset consultants

The Fixed Income and Credit forum is designed to examine income strategies across a range of asset classes and over the risk spectrum in areas such as direct loans, and absolute return strategies.

SUITABLE FOR: Heads of alternatives, Portfolio managers, CIOs, Asset consultants

The Absolute Returns Conference is designed to examine strategies that deliver absolute return outcomes. This includes the case for liquid alternatives and how to gain returns from alternative beta, volatility strategies, and appropriate fee structures.

SUITABLE FOR: Institutional investors, chairs of investment committees and specialist consultants from the world’s largest pension, sovereign wealth and endowment funds.

The Fiduciary Investors Symposiums are designed to examine the management of fiduciary assets in both investment strategy and implementation.

SUITABLE FOR: Heads of equities, Portfolio managers, CIOs, Asset consultants

The Equities Summit is designed to examine how the exposure and implementation of equity strategies have changed over the years with the evolution of portfolio construction techniques and quantitative and risk analysis.

SUITABLE FOR: CIOs, Heads of asset classes, Chairs of investment, Asset consultants

The Fiduciary Investors Symposiums are designed to examine the management of fiduciary assets in both investment strategy and implementation, including the latest thinking relating to asset allocation, risk management, beta management and alpha generation.

SUITABLE FOR: Heads of dealer group and licensee research businesses, senior executives of independent research firms, and senior professionals involved in researching investment products for inclusion in model portfolios and implemented consulting.

The forum focuses on issues related to the generation and delivery of research and research-related materials to clients.

SUITABLE FOR: Chief executives, chief investment officers and heads of product and personnel working in member services and advice of Superannuation funds

We believe idea generation should be celebrated. One way to do this is through acknowledging and exploring concepts and innovation. From this mantra, our big ideas series was created.

In this episode we talk with David Knox, senior partner, Mercer.

This conference is an urgent call to action for all investors to influence investee companies to change their focus and put people before profits to create a more sustainable economy, and to wake up to the crucial role they play in ensuring a sustainable recovery.

SUITABLE FOR: Those who work within superannuation funds in executive roles and management or as a trustee or consultant.

The largest annual forum exploring the insurance trends affecting industry super funds.

SUITABLE FOR: Those who work within superannuation funds in executive roles and management or as a trustee or consultant.

The largest annual forum exploring the insurance trends affecting industry super funds. With a program developed for group insurance professionals by group insurance professionals, the event covers innovation in product design and the claims experience.

This conference is an urgent call to action for all investors to influence investee companies to change their focus and put people before profits to create a more sustainable economy, and to wake up to the crucial role they play in ensuring a sustainable recovery.

This event will co-ordinate academics specialising in investment management and behavioural finance.
It will explore the applicability of the efficient market hypothesis in the current market environment – across different asset classes – and the tension between efficient markets and quantitative techniques with behavioural finance and fundamental analysis – challenging investors to think differently about asset allocation and investments, governance and decision-making.

The event designed specifically for senior research professionals. The forum focuses on issues related to the generation and delivery of research and research-related materials to clients.

In this first event of the Conexus Political Series, Minister Jones will make his inaugural luncheon address to the financial services industry which focuses on the future of innovation in financial services and how the industry can leverage technology to further its capability.

The Chair Forum addresses how super fund and investment committee chairs balance their increasing range of responsibilities, including board governance, strategy and delegation, investment decision making, the changing and challenging economic environment, putting members’ needs first, and managing a growing and diversifying financial services business including risk management.

The global economy is increasingly bifurcated between the US, Europe and Asia, how the growth projections and geopolitical risks between these regions is of increasing interest to institutional investors. This first Fiduciary Investors Symposium based in Asia will look at the return and impact opportunities in the region, and the importance of Asia in the global economy. It enables asset owners from around the world to explore investment themes, risks and opportunities with their global peers, and explore cutting edge approaches to risk management, liquidity management and portfolio construction.

2023 is a year described as one with looming polycrisis. As investors in that world, both global and domestic, how are we dealing with all the risks that surround us – energy crisis, continuing conflict in Europe and potential crisis in China and the Middle East, transitioning to a green future, and various inflationary pressures. 

The annual Licensee Summit is recognised as the key event for the leaders of financial planning dealer groups and licensees to meet and engage with peers and colleagues to discuss the issues that underpin great businesses and the delivery of great advice.

The largest annual forum exploring the insurance trends affecting industry super funds. With a program developed for group insurance professionals by group insurance professionals, the event covers innovation in product design and the claims experience.

SUITABLE FOR: Chief executives, chief investment officers and heads of product and personnel working in member services and advice of superannuation funds

For our third Political Series event on 28 August in Melbourne, I am excited to announce that we are hosting Senator the Hon Jane Hume, Shadow Finance Minister and the Hon Angus Taylor MP, Shadow Treasurer.

The discussion will be hosted by Conexus Financial managing director Colin Tate AM and editor-in-chief Aleks Vickovich.

Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to put your questions to two senior members of the Opposition as together they critique the Albanese Government’s performance to date, including its management of the economy and its response to the Quality of Advice Review.

The Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University celebrates the fast-moving change taking place in economies and communities and will examine the impact of innovation on our lives, workplaces and investments.

Drawing on the esteemed Stanford faculty, and taking advantage of the Silicon Valley location, it will look at the impact of robotics and automation, the information technology performance necessary to keep pace with the data explosion, urban evolution and the impact on infrastructure, climate change and affordable alternative energy, and network security.

How are these innovations shaping the future, and what does that future look like for investors in global markets?

The Sustainability in Practice conference will look at the meaningful steps that investors are taking to integrate sustainability including the impact on asset allocation and structural shifts of net zero. The conference will explore the new frontier of sustainability including impact investing, carbon markets becoming an asset class and investment frameworks for biodiversity. Drawing on experts at the University of Oxford and investors from all over the world, delegates will be left with functional tools to implement their sustainability commitments and cutting-edge research to share with their boards and investment committees.

Investors have entered a new era of heightened uncertainty where geopolitical risks are front and centre and the global economic environment continues to be uncertain. Big questions about energy security and what this could mean for the world’s transition to renewables and rising concerns about how de-globalization is changing the investment landscape also challenge investors. Alongside this fiduciaries in Australia are being tested like never before as they continue to grapple with the impact of APRA’s performance benchmark test across their portfolios, integrating ESG and building retirement solutions. The importance of peer-to-peer discussion and having the right information to achieve the best investment outcomes for members has never been more critical.

Register now.

For content about the upcoming event, please visit our publication website. 

The event is designed specifically for senior research professionals. The forum focuses on issues related to the generation and delivery of research and research-related materials to clients.

Register now.

For content about the previous event, please visit our publication website. 

Superannuation fund board chairs are faced with a myriad of responsibilities including the smooth running of the board, setting fund strategy, staying on top of regulation, and maintaining a long-term view and collaborative relationship with the CEO. Chair Forum is tailored specifically for the needs of superannuation fund chairs and investment committee chairs. 

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For content about the event, please visit our publication website. 

The Investment Magazine Real Estate Forum brings together the country’s most influential investors, analysts and consultants to make sense of the likely direction of real estate markets in Australia, and around the world. 

The Fiduciary Investors Symposium brings global investors together to examine best-practice strategy and implementation.

The event enables institutional investors to engage with industry thought leaders in academia and practice, in a collegiate environment that promotes shared discussion.

Arguments exist that private credit is a bubble which is about to burst, hurting institutional investors who have allocated to this sector. However a strong case could be made that, due to structural changes faced by banks, private credit is an attractive asset class whose opportunity set will continue to expand. Should institutional investors tread carefully or should they be taking steps to make private credit a foundational component of their diversified portfolios? 

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Investors have entered a new era of heightened uncertainty where geopolitical risks are front and centre and the global economic environment continues to be uncertain. Big questions about energy security and what this could mean for the world’s transition to renewables and rising concerns about how de-globalization is changing the investment landscape also challenge investors. Alongside this fiduciaries in Australia are being tested like never before as they continue to grapple with the impact of APRA’s performance benchmark test across their portfolios, integrating ESG and building retirement solutions. The importance of peer-to-peer discussion and having the right information to achieve the best investment outcomes for members has never been more critical.

Email the events team to register now.

For content about the previous event, please visit our publication website. 

The Fiduciary Investors Symposium brings global investors together to examine best-practice strategy and implementation.

The event enables institutional investors to engage with industry thought leaders in academia and practice, in a collegiate environment that promotes shared discussion.

Email to register now.

The annual Licensee Summit is recognised as the key event for the leaders of financial planning dealer groups and licensees to meet and engage with peers and colleagues to discuss the issues that underpin great businesses and the delivery of great advice.

Email to register now.

For content about the previous event, please visit our publication website. 

The largest annual forum exploring the insurance trends affecting industry super funds. With a program developed for group insurance professionals by group insurance professionals, the event covers innovation in product design and the claims experience.

Email to register now.

For content about the previous event, please visit our publication website. 

SUITABLE FOR: Chief executives, chief investment officers and heads of product and personnel working in member services and advice of superannuation funds

Email to register now.

For content about the previous event, please visit our publication website. 

The Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University celebrates the fast-moving change taking place in economies and communities and will examine the impact of innovation on our lives, workplaces and investments.

Investors have entered a new era of heightened uncertainty where geopolitical risks are front and centre and the global economic environment continues to be uncertain. Big questions about energy security and what this could mean for the world’s transition to renewables and rising concerns about how de-globalization is changing the investment landscape also challenge investors. Alongside this fiduciaries in Australia are being tested like never before as they continue to grapple with the impact of APRA’s performance benchmark test across their portfolios, integrating ESG and building retirement solutions. The importance of peer-to-peer discussion and having the right information to achieve the best investment outcomes for members has never been more critical.

Email to register now.

For content about the previous event, please visit our publication website. 

More investors than ever before put their words in to action and made sustainability commitments. The Sustainability in Practice conference looks at the meaningful steps that investors are taking to integrate sustainability including the impact on asset allocation and structural shifts of net zero. It will look at the portfolio construction and investment implementation implications of sustainable investing including the complexity of applying risk, return and outcome goals. Delegates will be left with functional tools to implement their sustainability commitments and cutting-edge research to share with their boards and investment committees.

Designed for chairs and deputy chairs of super funds.

This event is open to CEOs and senior leaders of financial planning licensees, dealer groups and boutique advice firms, along with C-suite executives in superannuation funds with oversight of advice, education and guidance.

The global economy is increasingly bifurcated between the US, Europe and Asia and how the growth projections and geopolitical risks between these regions plays out is of increasing interest to asset owners. This event looks at the return and impact opportunities in the region, and the importance of Asia in the global economy.

This event looks at the challenges long-term investors face in an environment of disruption including ongoing geopolitical risk and shifts in global economic dynamics. By accessing faculty of Harvard’s esteemed university, this event will leave investors empowered to tackle disruption in their portfolios and working lives.

Email to register now.

SUITABLE FOR: Chief executives, chief investment officers and heads of product and personnel working in member services and advice of superannuation funds

Email to register now.

For content about the previous event, please visit our publication website. 

Leveraging the esteemed Stanford faculty and Silicon Valley location, this event explores AI’s disruptive opportunities; as well as the core investment challenges of risk management, operational excellence and forward-looking capital allocation and portfolio construction techniques.

This event looks at the challenges long-term investors face in an environment of disruption including ongoing geopolitical risk and shifts in global economy dynamics. By accessing faculty of England’s most esteemed university, this event will leave investors empowered to tackle disruption in their portfolios and working lives.

For key influencers in portfolio construction for financial advisers, including executives across research houses, asset consulting, responsible entities and managed accounts/platforms.

Designed for chairs and deputy chairs of super funds.

This event is open to CEOs and senior leaders of financial planning licensees, dealer groups and boutique advice firms, along with C-suite executives in superannuation funds with oversight of advice, education and guidance.

The global economy is increasingly bifurcated between the US, Europe and Asia and how the growth projections and geopolitical risks between these regions plays out is of increasing interest to asset owners. This event looks at the return and impact opportunities in the region, and the importance of Asia in the global economy.

This event looks at the challenges long-term investors face in an environment of disruption including ongoing geopolitical risk and shifts in global economic dynamics. By accessing faculty of Harvard’s esteemed university, this event will leave investors empowered to tackle disruption in their portfolios and working lives.