Now in its fourth iteration, the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark shows that ongoing scrutiny of cost, governance, performance and responsible investing disclosures drives greater fund transparency.
David Morehead, chief investment officer of Baylor University endowment in Texas explains why he’s concerned about too much diversification and why the rewards of interest rate cuts will be most keenly felt in small cap equities.
Making more accurate predictions is the key to investing successfully. AI is a tool well suited to this task, and while it’s already proving its worth in practice and even as major pension fund investors continue to roll it out, they recommend caution and setting out clear use cases.
Ben Thornley, co-founder at Tideline, looks at how value creation practices bring a manager’s impact credentials into sharper focus, the strong positive correlation between impact and financial performance, and the role of allocators in incentivizing and enabling managers to deliver impact value.
In the latest development of its private market portfolio, Swiss pension fund PUBLICA is investing in infrastructure equity in a partnership with three other Swiss pension funds and Dutch pension investor APG.
Dutch fund Detailhandel takes participant engagement to a new level as it begins to integrate feedback and preferences from a three day beneficiary forum into investment strategy.
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