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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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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.
The complexity, limitation, evolution and liberation of climate benchmarks
Benchmarks are highlighted in the recent CFA Institute paper as among the historical norms that make investing in climate challenging. MSCI Institute’s Linda-Eling Lee talks about the complexities and evolution of climate benchmarks including the use of balanced scorecard-toolkits that are improving the technology.
Behind AustralianSuper’s global expansion
London-based AustralianSuper deputy CIO Damian Moloney oversees the global expansion plans of Australia’s largest superannuation fund. While a global presence has clear benefits for the fund and its members, Moloney’s advice to others contemplating the same is to plan extensively and build early.
CFA’s guide to the whole framework on net-zero
Climate risk has certain features that stretch the imaginations and toolkits of investors, meaning a new framework that includes systems thinking is necessary to branch out from the narrow measurement and management of risk predicated on modern portfolio theory, says Roger Urwin.
The ‘most momentous’ in living memory: The 2024 US presidential election
Douglas Rivers, chief scientist at pollster YouGov, said data coming out of the current US presidential election confirms significant cultural and demographic shifts that are reshaping the political map. Rivers told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium that the once-popular “demographics is destiny” mantra predicting permanent centre-left majorities has lost meaning in the Trump era.
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