Nick Wade from Northfield and the Curious Quant discuss the impact of COVID on risk modeling frameworks, assumptions, and how the recent movements in asset markets may or may not impact the short and long-term assumptions of asset owners.
COVID Popup Podcast: Curious Quant and Nick Wade discuss if risk models have something to say about pandemic risk.
FIS Oxford 2024
UK pension funds rue pressure to focus on the short term and group think
A group of investors at FIS Oxford reflect on the pressure to invest in the short term and the dangers of group think. Elsewhere they question if the private sector has capacity to find solutions to the climate emergency
Sarah RundellDecember 6, 2024
FIS Oxford 2024
DC behemoths open up on cultural and investment growth
Nest and AustralianSuper, the largest defined contribution trust funds in their respective countries, face similar challenges related to growth. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium at the University of Oxford heard how the funds are leaning into their growth challenges from a cultural and investment perspective.
Amanda WhiteDecember 6, 2024
FIS Oxford 2024
Why the impact of technology is limited only by the laws of physics
The potential of technology is constrained only by the laws of physics, whether classical or, increasingly, quantum. As the power of technology increases it allows us to understand the world in a lot more detail – including why the current path to net-zero isn’t going to work.
Simon HoyleDecember 6, 2024
FIS Oxford 2024
Asset owners proving trust goes hand-in-hand with transparency
Transparency is key to building trust according to executives at Norges Bank and the United Nations Staff Pension Fund. They discussed the benefits, and limitations of transparency at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at the University of Oxford.
Amanda WhiteDecember 5, 2024
FIS Oxford 2024
AI is a copilot, not a driver, of asset owner organisational change
The use of AI in asset owners’ investment operations continues to proliferate but increasingly they’re setting clear boundaries around what it is and is not permitted to do, while resisting the temptation to allow AI to dictate organisational change.
Simon HoyleDecember 5, 2024
FIS Oxford 2024
Great power competition: The unlikeable, but undeniable, mega theme
The fragmentation of global power, and big increases in defence spending, alongside climate change and the rise of AI, have been identified by Wellington Management as major generational changes that will impact markets for decades to come.
Leng OhlssonDecember 4, 2024
FIS Oxford 2024
Private market investors ponder transition investment
Investors putting capital to work in private market transition assets face unknowns around government policy, but the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Oxford has heard that private credit also fits well with the long term nature of transition investments and brings valuable relationships with investee companies.
Sarah RundellDecember 2, 2024
