Stanford endowment’s CEO Robert Wallace explains the three pillars of his approach to investment: strategy, execution and governance. He was speaking at Norway’s NBIM annual investment conference.
Factor rebalancing a portfolio is a better way to manage liquidity and leverage implications of illiquid assets compared to traditional rebalancing to a static asset allocation, according to new research.
Positive social tipping points are probably the fastest and most powerful way of addressing the climate crisis but how do we tip a social system? The Thinking Ahead Institute’s Time Hodgson investigates.
South Africa’s $119 billion Government Employee Pension Fund is in the process of readying its investment processes for a new law that will allow people to draw down some of their retirement income early.
CalPERS may tie the incentive pay of its staff to meeting climate KPIs in the near future. The fund’s executive pay consultants also discussed other ways the fund should tweak incentive pay like adding an asset class investment performance weighting to the annual incentive formula.
The clock is ticking for Dutch fund PWRI to transition to a new DC scheme in line with pension reform. Imke Hollander explains why the pension fund is unlikely to invest more in risk assets and flags mounting costs in the transition, particularly in fees paid to advisors.
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