{"id":635099,"date":"2026-10-19T08:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635099\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:36:12","slug":"why-unisuper-investment-chief-john-pearce-says-debt-investors-must-be-more-discerning-with-ai-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635099\/","title":{"rendered":"Why UniSuper investment chief John Pearce says debt investors must be more discerning with AI funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UniSuper chief investment officer John Pearce has urged bond investors to take a harder line on financing the artificial intelligence boom, even as he dismissed fears of a broader tech-fuelled bubble in equity markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/chanticleer\/unisuper-rides-ai-super-cycle-laments-unfriendly-aussie-market-20260708-p60dii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pearce, who oversees $175 billion in assets<\/a> for Australia\u2019s fourth-largest superannuation fund, said a string of recent high-profile setbacks in AI capital raisings suggested investors were becoming more discerning about which company to back.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UniSuper chief investment officer John Pearce has urged bond investors to take a harder line on financing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-635099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}