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Impact investing’s case for scale
Impact investing has come a long way in the past two decades, going from a niche strategy to a $1.5 trillion industry, but there are still challenges for it to reach institutional scale due to the lack of products and insufficient evidence of outperformance in some parts of the market.
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Reports of America’s decline greatly exaggerated: Kotkin
Reports of America’s decline as a geopolitical and economic power are exaggerated, and the noise investors should learn to ignore is really only the presidency itself, celebrated historian Stephen Kotkin told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Harvard.
Responsible investing remains ‘common sense’: MassPRIM chair
Trustee of Massachusetts PRIM and state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg said investing with a stewardship and sustainability-conscious approach remains “common sense” for the $116 billion fund, though she said it has been harder for the investor to access some ESG-related information from managers and companies.
How the Future Fund built a TPA culture that scales
The total portfolio approach has allowed Australia’s sovereign wealth fund to capture the themes that will power markets and economies for decades to come, said director of thought leadership Craig Thorburn – but that doesn’t mean it’s not hard to scale.
Crisis the real test of LP-GP relationships
When Blue Owl Capital came under sustained media pressure over redemptions to its private credit funds, Michael Hitchcock, chief executive of the South Carolina Retirement System Investment Commission (RSIC), didn’t waver. He thinks that what allocators learn from their managers in a period of crisis tells them more than any official due diligence could.
Fed independence a key US inflation variable: Former CEA chair
The path of US inflation hinges on the future of the Federal Reserve, with leading Harvard economist and former Obama administration Council of Economic Advisers chair Jason Furman warning that another variable for inflation is whether the central bank can remain independent.
Public equity manager challenges the case for private
Loomis Sayles’ Aziz Hamzaogullari has questioned whether asset allocators are giving private equity more credit than it is worth, saying the case for investing in PE rests on flawed return measurement, hidden risks and high fees and that public equities should be treated with the same “patience” that PE receives.
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