FIS Oxford 2024
Reckoning on growth: Why tech offers the solution
Daniel Susskind, author of "Growth: A Reckoning" argues that leaning into new technology will allow global economic growth without gobbling up the earth's finite resources.
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‘Opportunity to lose a lot of money’ in net zero investments
Allocating capital to net zero opportunities doesn’t mean investors are prepared to do charity. In a universe of potential transition solutions, Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics Cameron Hepburn at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford said investors should look at them with some filters.
Room for fee innovation as traditional models come under pressure
Asset owners and managers may not always agree on fees, but one thing both parties are thinking a lot more about these days is creating innovative structures which – if done right – could provide rewards for the former and value for the latter.
Blue bonds: The next wave of sustainable finance?
The blue bond market can provide an innovative means of supporting the critically underfunded blue economy and blue bonds offer a compelling opportunity in fixed income with untapped impact potential. Challenges include illiquidity in the market and where to place the investment in a portfolio.
Drivers of the future: Asia rises but demographics and debt impact the West
Speaking at FIS Oxford Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation and development, senior fellow at the Oxford Martin School, professorial fellow at the Balliol College, University of Oxford sketched an emerging world characterised by a rising Asia and declining west.
Leveraging geographic diversification in a multipolar world
The past 20 years have seen large pools of capital become larger, more global and diversified across asset classes. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard how Bridgewater Associates is allocating capital and resources to meet this shifting paradigm and why investors can’t try to bet on certain geographic regions overperforming.
CFA Institute: Galvanizing the industry for change
In a wide-ranging discussion at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Oxford, CFA Institute chief executive Margaret Franklin, and global head of content at WTW Roger Urwin, examined some of the challenges the investment industry faces and the need for evolution.
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