Professional Pensions is holding a webinar on harnessing the complexity premium.
The webinar - held in partnership with Allianz Global Investors - will take place on Wednesday 7 September at 11am and will look at the opportunities presented by trade finance assets.
For centuries, companies and their banks have financed payment terms under commercial contracts - with this risk traditionally sitting either on corporate balance sheets or with the bank.
Constraints on bank capital and increasing economic activity, however, have created a funding gap estimated at $5trn (£3.84trn) - a gap that has allowed external investors to access the area of trade finance and help bridge this shortfall
The opportunity for pension schemes is significant, with trade finance assets offering an attractive risk-return profile and a potential alternative to short-dated credit and cash - with these additional returns generated through the complexity premium of trade finance rather than additional risk.
This fully interactive webinar will examine the asset class in more depth - looking at how trade finance works; the way the asset class can serve as a diversifying, ultra-short allocation within pension scheme portfolios; and assessing how such assets can fit within a pension scheme's broader portfolio.
