Impact investing’s case for scale

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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Holistic returns, not poker

Hermes chief executive tells fiduciary investors that success should include helping create a sustainable world; otherwise, they’d be better off investing people’s money in top poker players.

Digital value add: alpha from IT

A panel tells delegates that asset managers need to make the shift from using IT to support back-office functions to applying it in their fundamental investment decision-making.

European risk premium justified

There is a European risk premium investors can access, the executive director of the Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites said at the opening of the Fiduciary Investors Symposium, at INSEAD.

Finding the stories in economics

Nobel Prize winner and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University Robert Shiller addressed the Fiduciary Investors Symposium recently. This is an excerpt of his speech.

Better balance your beta

The most important thing investors can do given the investment environment is to balance their beta to account for the wide range of potential outcomes, says Greg Jensen, Bridgewater co-CIO.

What China’s index inclusion means

The implications for investors of the inclusion of China A-shares in the wider MSCI indexes, an inevitable outcome, will be discussed at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Yale in October.

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