Canadian investor IMCO lays out compelling arguments to invest overseas but warns that a country's GDP growth does not equate to returns and tends to avoid emerging and frontier markets because of heightened geopolitical and currency risk.
The endowment for two major Texan universities is hoping for a soft economic landing but planning for a recession. It is honing a playbook that ensures ongoing liquidity to make distributions, is not over its skis in terms of capital calls and commitments and has the firepower to invest in.
The CIO of Iceland's second-largest pension fund outlines the importance of diversification overseas, and the challenge of not being able to hedge inflation in the fund's liabilities because of limitations in the banking sector.
Dutch asset manager APG's latest impact investment offers a compelling alternative to emerging market corporate and sovereign debt or DFI issuance. The strategy also offers a window into how APG’s responsible investment strategy has evolved.
Industriens, the DKK 217 billion ($30.6 billion) Danish pension fund, is using advanced technology and exploring AI models to bring sweeping advantages to its risk management processes. Julia Sommer Legaard, investment risk and data manager at the fund for the last year, explains the process behind the innovation.
In a year forecast to be volatile, and with the spectre of recession still very much on the cards, Top1000funds.com finds CIOs exploring new strategies, paring back on active equity, investing in technology and wrestling with the many disparate approaches to sustainability.
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