Investor Profile
Helmsley puts liquidity centre stage
The CIO of the Helmsley Charitable Trust, Rosalind Hewsenian, has crafted a straight forward, contrarian strategy with liquidity at its heart.
Sarah RundellJanuary 9, 2020
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Investor Profile
CN takes on tech in hunt for talent
Marlene Puffer, president and chief executive at the $18 billion pension fund for Canadian National, says the fund has some natural advantages in the hunt for talent.
Sarah RundellJanuary 8, 2020
FIS Harvard 2019
Modern slavery needs investor action
Asset owners and managers can help solve modern slavery and invest to stem the suffering of the 40.3 million workers in the world trapped in some form of labour abuse.
Sarah RundellDecember 11, 2019
Investor Profile
Hawaii expands CRO strategy
The new CIO at the Hawaii state pension fund is looking for additional sources of uncorrelated return, including hedge funds, and will look to add new managers to the lineup. Sarah Rundell talks to Elizabeth Burton.
Sarah RundellDecember 10, 2019
Investor Profile
Belgium’s KBC boosts alternative beta
One of Belgium’s biggest pension funds, the fund for employees of KBC, Belgium’s banking and insurance group, has recently increased its allocation to real assets and switched more of its equity allocation to alternative beta.
Sarah RundellDecember 9, 2019
Sustainability Digital – Sept 2020
Impact investment continues to evolve
Impact investment and its combination of financial returns and social or environmental purpose is beginning to move from fringe to the financial mainstream in part because the long-held concept that investment should only maximise shareholder value is beginning to fade.
Sarah RundellDecember 5, 2019