Food for thought: Investing in global food production

September 08, 2026

Private equity: As carry sinks, pension funds are winning the talent war

September 08, 2026

Are Canada’s pension bosses paid too much?

September 04, 2026

Inside the year-and-a-half-long review into ATP’s complicated portfolio

September 02, 2026

US endowment returns rocket on SpaceX windfall

Early venture bets on SpaceX have ballooned into major portfolio positions at some US university endowments, with new analysis estimating the aerospace firm contributed as much as 10.6 percentage points to annual returns. Michael Markov, founder of US quantitative researcher Markov Processes International, says the windfall is now creating a concentration risk that investors cannot ignore.

September 08, 2026

Analysis

Private equity: As carry sinks, pension funds are winning the talent war

September 08, 2026

Analysis

Are Canada’s pension bosses paid too much?

September 04, 2026

Investor Profile

Inside the year-and-a-half-long review into ATP’s complicated portfolio

September 02, 2026

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Could Norway’s SWF really disappear?

September 01, 2026

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Previ invests abroad as pandemic bites

Brazil's largest pension fund has been planning to invest more overseas for a while. Now economic travails in its home market due to the pandemic have stepped up the pressure to diversify.

Scott Kalb and Tomicah Tillemann

January 28, 2021

Sustainability Digital – March 2021

How to avoid funding treason

The siege on the US Capitol has revealed asset owners may be investing in companies that work with or fund extremist groups. To protect their organisations, their stakeholders, and their savers from such risks, asset owners should consider revising their ESG frameworks to include disclosure and accountability policies on corporate political spending.

January 26, 2021

Sustainability Digital – March 2021

Amazon under fire

Two of the world’s largest asset owners are putting pressure on Amazon to reveal exactly how it is protecting its workers from COVID-19. It’s a move indicative of the investor mood to focus attention on human and labour rights among investee companies, with a particular spotlight on the tech sector.

January 22, 2021

COVID-19

Economists call for targeted spending

Three prominent Chicago Booth economists have called for more targeted spending by the US government to more effectively manage the disruption to the economy, but they are not worried about inflation in the near term.

January 19, 2021

Sustainability

MIT consortium builds ESG tools

Research into the data, measurement and methodologies of ESG rating agencies has resulted in the Aggregate Confusion Project, a research project led by academics at MIT to develop a set of ESG tools and methodologies that will become best practice.

January 14, 2021

Sustainability

Finance teaching not fit for purpose

Finance needs to be based on “real world economics” not the unrealistic and rational assumptions of traditional finance argue co-editors Herman Bril, Georg Kell and Andreas Rasche in their book Sustainable Investing: A path to a New Horizon.