Shaping CEOs’ long-term reports
What do investors with long horizons want to know? Megatrends, risk factors, capital allocation and governance are dominant themes in chief executives' presentations at CEO-Investor Forums.
Risk 2.0 is better – let’s count the ways
In the final part of a column series exploring a new risk management framework, 'risk 2.0', WTW global head of portfolio strategy Jeff Chee outlines what investment professionals of the future need to understand about the commonalities of risk events and the resulting benefits of an interconnected risk mindset.
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GEPF values governance
A letter to the editor from GEPF in response to the story "GEPF shows value of governance".
Building a better fee model
Changes in standard funds-management fee structures are inevitable. Better alignment and fairness can be arranged if the stakeholders are willing to make it happen. Mercer presents some ideas.
Divestment doesn’t go far enough
Many investors are ridding their portfolios of assets that contribute to human suffering, but that may not go far enough. Tim Hodgson writes that a global fix requires something far more bold.
Toward an infrastructure asset class
EDHECinfra proposes industry standard benchmarks for infrastructure, based on a framework for measuring risk-adjusted performance and the results from its survey of investors.
Insurance-linked securities spruiked
Insurance-linked securities should have a larger weighting in many investors’ portfolios, Mercer advises, as last year’s hurricanes and other natural disasters are driving up premiums.
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