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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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Oxford Professor urges urgent European reform
The University of Oxford’s distinguished Professor of Economics David Vines predicted the ongoing crisis in Europe will turn into a “train wreck with implications for investors” unless governments undertake significant reforms. He urges for large write downs of the sovereign debt of southern European countries, a loosening of austerity in those countries and a significant
Fiduciary investor think tank London – delegate profile
Return to event coverage DELEGATES Jonathan Anayi, director, investment solutions, Winton Capital Ciarán Barr, investment director, RPMI Railpen Keith Carne, first bursar, Kings College, Cambridge Sarah Carter, executive director, Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Cambridge University Nick Cavalla, chief investment officer, Cambridge University David Chambers, director of the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at
Concerns over private equity leave pension funds wary
Institutional investors are clearly attracted to private equity, but remain wary of the sector for its perceived lack of transparency and ability to be measured, high fees and a sense that they cannot invest into the sector as truly equal partners. “It’s clear that now is a time with a lot of flux in private
All aboard the change express as Railpen leaves the station
At the end of a corporate review process that lasted eight months, involved 23 meetings of a steering committee and produced 60 working papers, the UK railways pension fund Railpen was left with 422 action items. “We’ve done 224 of them,” Chris Hitchen, Railpen chief executive, told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium (FIS) at Harvard University.
Using a ‘foreign language shield’ to improve investment decision making
Introducing a “foreign language shield” into a decision-making process is a proven way of making better decisions, according to Cass Sunstein, the Robert Walmsey University Professor at Harvard Law School. Sunstein, a former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium (FIS) at Harvard University that
