Being passively invested shouldn’t mean being passive with regard to responsibilities says the Church of England Pension Board which has developed a new climate transition index with FTSE Russell, LSE and TPI that is the first to incorporate forward-looking climate data.
Oregon Investment Council has committed to investing $3 billion a year in private equity, with the smooth pacing strategy part a response to the fund’s overweight position to poor performing vintages as a result of its allocations before and after the GFC.
The investor is also focusing on manager relationships with a focus on accessing new relationships and upsizing the best existing ones; and a new strategy that sees no provider in charge of more than 5 per cent of the portfolio.
I chat with Asif on his career journey, how the world changed after the GFC and what he sees for the future of machine learning assisting with rigorous testing of a hypothesis.
Career, systems, how the world changed after GFC, data sets that are intere
Only 16 of the 74 largest public pension plans in the US mention ESG or responsible investing in their public documents. Scott Kalb looks at why the US is so far behind.
There is a 70 per cent chance a recession will occur in the next six months according to a new index measuring the state of the economy that uses a statistical method first applied to analysing human skulls.
Scientific Beta has critiqued the proposals of the TEG on climate benchmarks, arguing they are unduly influenced by commercial interests and do little to discourage greenwashing or support decarbonisation efforts in the real economy.
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