Climate change and capital markets: A global opportunity
Tackling the social, environmental and economic risks presented by climate change will require one of the biggest public-private partnerships ever seen.
Parsimonious asset allocation
Editor of the Financial Analysts Journal and chair of Ennis Knupp & Associates, Richard Ennis, believes contemporary asset allocation schemes are becoming unwieldy for many decision makers because of the proliferation and splintering of investment categories, and advocates an approach that relies more on empirical evidence than on assumptions or intuition.
Quantifying labor and human rights portfolio risk
This paper, by senior research fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, Aaron Bernstein, explores how pension funds can gather quantifiable, independently audited data on the risks posed by labor and human rights activities of global companies, that is analogous to financial information, and how investors can help facilitate the acceptance
Liability – informed risk budgeting and the use of higher tracking error active equity managers: the virtues of being different
In an environment where periodic illiquidity has become more frequent, Alan Dorsey and Juliana Davydov from Neuberger and Berman explore the risks associated with a new asset allocation approach and the use of managers with broader mandates.
PIMCO predicts a “new normal” to reign in investment markets
A “new normal” will reign in investment markets after the shocks of last year, according to PIMCO, with the manager’s secular outlook favouring investment at the front-end of the yield curve as well as income producing instruments. This article looks at the outcomes of its recent secular forum including a call for investment management vehicles
Meet Invest AD, gateway to MENA opportunities
Invest AD, the new-look Abu Dhabi Investment Company, has further ramped up efforts to attract institutional capital from around the globe to invest in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by launching four new equity funds.
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