For investors who believe interest rates will stabilise in 2023, growth equities such as electric vehicles, emerging markets fintech and some luxury brands could be strong investment prospects, according to equity portfolio specialist Raj Shant from Jennison Associates.
Norges Bank Investment Management has established a new climate advisory board. Carine Smith Ihenacho, chief governance and compliance officer, spoke to Top1000funds.com and explains the task at hand.
2022 was one of the most challenging years for private equity investment for years. Successful investment in today’s volatile and challenging market involves vintage year diversification and steady pacing. And the MassPRIM investment team warns that aggregate headline US private equity valuations doesn’t tell the whole story.
Many of the certainties investors have taken for granted over the past several decades appear to be fading. In its World View research, Canada’s IMCO reflects on the years ahead
The “phase out” or “phase down” of coal use leads us down two different paths with the Thinkin Ahead’s Tim Hodgson arguing that phase out is a choice to save the planet, while phase down is an attempt to save our unsustainable way of life.
For pension funds with a large roster of external managers, balancing the integration of top-down strategy with managers’ bottom-up implementation is one of the most challenging tasks says Mark Walker, CIO of Coal Pension. The key is to ensure external managers truly understand the strategic goals for the allocation.
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