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How the Future Fund built a TPA culture that scales

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.

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Nobel laureate advises a different focus on risk to enhance returns

Nobel Prize-winning economist Myron Scholes advises investors to think differently about risk to improve the way it is managed, to help boost returns. He told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium the focus of asset owners should shift from thinking of risk as a constant to considering how risks are changing.

Flawed Fed encouraging excessive risk taking

An increasing willingness of regulators to bail out investors at times of crises is reducing the competitive environment in which banks and financial institutions operate, the Fiduciary investors Symposium at Stanford University has heard. It is also encouraging more risky behaviour, and creating a fragile system in the longer run.

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The trait that will define ‘the California model’, according to CalPERS

Allocation to climate solutions and the ability to generate alpha from that across asset classes are what will define the future “California model”, according to CalPERS managing director of sustainable investment, Peter Cashion.

CFA’s tools for tackling net zero provoke investing infrastructure re-think

Foundational research by CFA Institute aims to prompt the best minds in the asset management and asset owner communities to consider how to better consider climate risk. Institute chief executive Marg Franklin says governance, organisational design and systems thinking will be core elements of how the industry evolves its thinking and

Synthetic biology can save us – if it gets the capital it needs

In years gone by, governments underwrote the development of new technologies before opening the doors to the private sector to exploit the applications. Today, the private sector is the primary source of R&D funding, and foundational research in technologies such as biotech are struggling to attract capital.

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