Australia, every mention
34 scenes (2018) · ← back to Australia
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every year 2018 anyone Ted Seides 65Brendan O'Connor 55Raphael Arndt 32Frank Danieli 23Kristian Fok 17James Clark 17Ross Israel 16Sonya Sawtell-Rickson 15Sam Sicilia 14Ashby Monk 11
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Australia comes up
Raphael Arndt – Australia's Sovereign Wealth Fund CIO (Capital Allocators, Episode 70)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Raphael Arndt, the chief investment officer of Australia's one hundred and forty five billion dollars sovereign wealth fund, the Futures Fund. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 Raphael Arndt And then came back to Australia and decided that the future career in engineering while it was there for me was probably not stimulating enough compared to what I was interested in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 Raphael Arndt So, in the early 2000, Australia had benefited from some degree of the resource boom.
- ▶ 17:39 Raphael Arndt And so we try to bring those things together by, by having a small team of 60 investors all in one office here in Melbourne, Australia.
- ▶ 27:32 Raphael Arndt It needs some discussion, because we don't really think of asset classes, but the equity exposure overall is about 30% of the fund, and that's roughly about half developed market equities and a quarter h of emerging market in Australian 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:51 Raphael Arndt So there's not much point having a small cap strategy in Australia, for example.
- ▶ 56:35 Raphael Arndt Many Australians from a very volatile currency, and so it also tends to be correlated with risk, or more particularly risk-off scenarios, so that as someone with a large global portfolio, we have to worry about liquidity in those type of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:57 Ted Seides What do you think are the core differences between a US-based, kind of US-focused investor and an Aussie-based investor? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:53 Raphael Arndt That is true, but there was an opportunity in Australia to buy some domestic airports. 3 times in the scene
Kristian Fok – Australia's CBUS Superannuation CIO (Capital Allocators, EP.66)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Christian Falk, the chief investment officer of Australia's forty six billion dollar construction and building industry superannuation fund, or CBUS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:28 Kristian Fok And I think that's really an interesting thing to understand is that our superannuation industry in Australia in its current form was formulated in the early stages through the industrial system.
- ▶ 12:02 Kristian Fok And in Australia,
- ▶ 19:32 Kristian Fok So we, I think, fairly unique, certainly in Australia, and probably globally, where we have a dedicated property development company that purchases land, gets the design of a building, gets all the pre-lease tenants, builds a building, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:13 Kristian Fok So in Australia, there are a small number of funds that have decided, actually, they do need to think about taking more control on the investment side.
- ▶ 31:39 Kristian Fok Or in Australia, it might be a housing market, for instance.
- ▶ 34:21 Kristian Fok This is in Aussie equities. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:32 Kristian Fok In Australia, it's a small market for high quality private equity managers, so you sort of know who's around there, but also the advisor sources transactions.
- ▶ 40:41 Kristian Fok And I think certainly we've got, I think we've got over a hundred Aussie equities managers, for instance. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:45 Kristian Fok So we've got about a quarter of the portfolio, which is Aussie equities. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:19 Kristian Fok So one of our strategies that we're likely to introduce this year is to actually take more concentrated individual positions in some Australian listed companies with a view to not only just have those positions as an equity holder, but to…
Roz Hewsenian –Helmsley Trust's Chief of People and Process (Capital Allocators, EP.63)
- ▶ 1:10:00 Roz Hewsenian So we've been going around the world, Melbourne, Australia, Budapest, Hungary, the east end of London, and we're finding other pockets of venture capital excellence that
Ross Israel - Stable, Predictable Cash Flows (EP.53)
- ▶ 4:20 Ted Seides Ross Israel is the head of global infrastructure investments for QIC, Queensland, Australia's eighty two billion Aussie dollar, that's sixty two billion US dollar investment fund.
- ▶ 6:13 Ross Israel Investment banking was based in Sydney, so I went to school in Brisbane and left to, as many people in Australia do, they sort of move out of the smaller cities into Sydney, Melbourne, and investment banking sort of fell into doing a lot… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:45 Ross Israel So QIC was created after compulsory superannuation came in in Australia by the Queensland government, because they realized that there was a lot of capital that was going to accumulate in their defined benefit, defined contribution schemes. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Ted Seides And within the, so the 12 assets that you own, how many of them are in, say, Australia versus outside? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:20 Ross Israel And then in real estate, they're more like a direct player where their, their feed from retail malls is quite interesting and sort of potentially driving where economic activities emerging in Australia in different corridors.
- ▶ 29:34 Ted Seides And the government side of that, do you end up having a competitive advantage in, call it Australia or Queensland assets, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:02 Ross Israel Investors outside of Australia as well in Europe and also in North America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:26 Ross Israel Creating optionality and careers and pathways in our business, both in Australia, we've got offices in London and New York, so we're trying to get that mobility in our team in order to experience bigger markets and be able to take the…
- ▶ 39:44 Ross Israel They originate, they execute, they asset manage in the sector, so that means you're looking at a port in Australia, you're looking at a port in the US, you're looking at a port in Canada, you're comparing operating models, so that's very… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 Ross Israel For regulators in Australia, there's a very strong centering on customer bills and, and the value equation that's delivered to, to the user.
- ▶ 51:58 Ross Israel The other aspect is whether, in fact, that will be a catalyst for what we've seen in Australia, which is this recycling of government assets, and whether, in fact, large public debt elsewhere around the world will actually invigorate…
- ▶ 53:18 Ross Israel They played for Australia in the Wallabies.
Andy Redleaf - Evolution of Markets (Capital Allocators, EP.46)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Andy Redleaf, the founding partner of White Box Advisors, a five and a half billion dollar multi-strategy hedge fund launched in 1999 with offices in the metropolitan hubs of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Austin,…