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Behind AustralianSuper’s global expansion

London-based AustralianSuper deputy CIO Damian Moloney oversees the global expansion plans of Australia’s largest superannuation fund. While a global presence has clear benefits for the fund and its members, Moloney’s advice to others contemplating the same is to plan extensively and build early.
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Sustainability

Why patient capital will be rewarded for investing in timberland

The fundamentals that underpin timberland, and their strategic role on the path to net zero, will reward consistent investment in productive natural capital. Aleksi Ehtee, timberland team lead, Church Commissioners for England explains why forestry is a real opportunity for patient capital to tap into favourable long-term supply-demand dynamics.
Investor Profile

Denmark’s PFA: Passive with a caveat and why an AI reset lies ahead

Kasper Lorenzen, chief investment officer of Denmark's PFA explains why passive is no longer applicable to the complex equity strategies that do much more than follow an index. He also explains why he believes an AI reset lies around the corner.
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Investor Profile

Guardians of the Future: The evolution of New Zealand Super

New Zealand Super’s new chief executive Jo Townsend inherits an organisation with a strong culture but facing some challenges posed by rapid growth. An internal project aims to reduce complexity and focus on simplicity for a fund already rated by WTW as operating at global best practice levels.
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Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing

CFA’s guide to the whole framework on net-zero

Climate risk has certain features that stretch the imaginations and toolkits of investors, meaning a new framework that includes systems thinking is necessary to branch out from the narrow measurement and management of risk predicated on modern portfolio theory, says Roger Urwin.
Asset Owner Directory

The Asset Owner Directory is an interactive tool to give readers an insight into the world of global asset owners. It includes key information for the largest asset owners around the world such as key personnel, asset allocation and performance.

Investor Profile
Investor Profile

Why AP4 has decided to integrate Scope 3 emissions across equities

Swedish buffer fund AP4 has begun integrating Scope 3 into its systematic equity allocation, convinced a company's up and downstream emissions data signposts the green winners of the future.

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FIS Stanford 2024

The ‘most momentous’ in living memory: The 2024 US presidential election

Douglas Rivers, chief scientist at pollster YouGov, said data coming out of the current US presidential election confirms significant cultural and demographic shifts that are reshaping the political map. Rivers told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium that the once-popular “demographics is destiny” mantra predicting permanent centre-left majorities has lost meaning in the Trump era.
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Fiduciary Investors Symposium

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.

November 19-21, 2024 | University of Oxford

Fiduciary Investors Symposium

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.

 

March 18-20, 2025 | National University of Singapore
Sustainability
Sustainability

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance chair calls for more action from governments

Five years after signing up to net zero, climate-conscious asset owners have a message for governments: act now, or put global prosperity at risk. As policymakers, investors and climate action advocates descend on NYC for Climate Week, chair of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, Günther Thallinger, reflects on the progress.
Podcasts
Fiduciary Investors Series

Why Asia is the future

In the midst of the great power rivalry between the US and China, “we need to carve out a future that works well for all of us” says National University of Singapore’s Danny Quah, in a talk examining the global economy and the role of Asia. Listen here.

Fiduciary Investors Podcast Series

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Risk
Featured Story

Risk management in an age of geopolitical uncertainty: Davos 2024 insights

Geopolitical risk was a key theme at Davos 2024 says FCLTGlobal’s Sarah Keohane Williamson who hosted an institutional investor CEO roundtable at the World Economic Forum. She says investors need to address geopolitical uncertainty in their strategies with the ability to distinguish signal from noise more critical than ever before.
Asset Allocation
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Better performance and alignment of purpose: The benefits of TPA

A total portfolio approach aligns investment implementation with the purpose of being a fiduciary, rather than short term or relative performance. Not only that, there is huge upside performance from the approach, the source of which is not what you might think according to Sue Brake.
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Private Equity

Finland’s VER reflects on how to enliven European venture capital

Statistics show that Europe outperforms the United States when it comes to 10-year venture capital returns, but European investors struggle to access the market. Finnish State Fund VER's CEO Timo Löyttyniemi suggests how the market could develop.