The Chief Investment Officers Forum gives our industry’s key investment decision makers and leaders the opportunity to come together with peers and global investment experts to share and discuss their macroeconomic and strategic views, openly and candidly.

CII’s Fixed Income & Credit Forum addresses the challenges of managing and allocating capital across an asset class that is seemingly structurally impaired and complicated further by heightened uncertainty about the future direction of interest rates, inflation and debt levels.

CII’s Equities Forum brings together the largest delegation of senior equities investors in Australia to address the most critical issues in portfolio construction, analysing emerging investment opportunities across strategies and regions, and assessing risk management techniques, focused on achieving their individual investment objectives.

Infrastructure has long been a staple sleeve in the asset allocator’s quest for long term, stable cash flows. But, how do we actually define infrastructure? In recent times, the intersection between global thematics of decarbonisation, A.I, energy transition, water and food security, transport electrification and more have launched a broad range of infrastructure assets into the spotlight, making clear the importance of coordination between public and private sectors. The space is constantly evolving, making the opportunity landscape dynamic and vibrant. This forum encourages constructive, candid dialogue between key infrastructure allocators, managers, and consultants to provide novel views and insights on first, second and third order impacts of key trends.

Facing challenges of a warming planet, social inequality and rapid technological advancement, governments are attempting to steer markets using regulation and multinational agreements (eg Net Zero by 2050). In contrast, super funds have a powerful tool to nudge behaviour - the way they allocate capital in the short, medium and long term.

CII’s Private Credit Forum addresses the evolution of the opportunity set in direct lending, across domestic and global private debt markets, in response to the continued focus of institutional investors on the asset class.

CII’s Real Estate Forum explores the opportunity set for real estate investors and highlights the key investment considerations for effective implementation. Globally, real estate assets have established their place in institutional portfolios and, as such, investment in the asset class is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with heightened competition for a limited pool of assets.

CII’s Unconstrained Capital Forum is tailored for investment decision makers at Family Offices, endowments, foundations and other institutional-scale investors with the flexibility to explore non-conventional asset allocation and strategy.

As funds grow and their complexity increases, every basis point matters. Optimised implementation and trade execution is in our members' best financial interests; operational alpha enhances returns in an increasingly uncertain investment environment.