NZ Super’s recent five-year reference portfolio review saw much debate over currency risk, with the discussion elevating to the board – an unusual situation for the fund whose internal IC usually makes recommendations to the board.
The victory of Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the US general election is a “double repudiation” not just of Trump but of the “democracy in crisis crowd” who thought American democracy was under threat, argues historian and author Stephen Kotkin, Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Oxford University professors Richard Barker and Bob Eccles explain why they are calling for investor support for an IFRS Foundation Sustainability Standards Board, which would focus its efforts on the sustainability information most relevant to investors.
Organising teams to develop thinking outside of investment silos has helped Cbus navigate recent liquidity challenges and devote deeper thinking to structural trends, the A$54 billion fund’s CIO Kristian Fok says.
A new Global Pension Transparency Benchmark – the first formal collaboration between Top1000funds.com and CEM Benchmarking – will launch in February 2021 ranking countries, via their underlying pension funds, on four factors: governance and organization; performance; costs; and responsible investing.
As geopolitical risks increasingly stalk developed markets, asset owners sifting through the noise for long-term trends believe a fragmented world is here to stay. We spoke to CalSTRS, OPTrust, PFA and USS about the impact on their portfolios.
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