Andrea Caloisi from the Thinking Ahead Institute argues that breaking down the collective action problem into shared leadership building blocks is a powerful tool in the hands of asset owners to tackle global challenges like climate change.
ATP’s Christian Kjær explains the rationale behind two new overlays to better navigate the risk of future correlations between bonds and equities which wrong footed the risk parity investor in 2022.
Tough investment environments, pressure on costs and competition for jobs are creating pressure on investment teams to perform better. And investment professionals need to jettison some antiquated approaches to decision making to keep pace with social norms. Cognitive diversity in teams has been hailed as a saviour.
Risk-based divestments increased returns on Norges Bank Investment Management’s equity portfolio by 0.07 per cent in 2023. Measuring the impact of its investment decisions, reported in NBIM’s latest RI Report, is part of a concerted drive for greater transparency by the manager of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global.
After 23 years in charge, CalSTRS departing CIO Chris Ailman has more stories from the investment frontline than most. He shares personal recollections of the GFC, his fears of the scale of the climate emergency and why worrying levels of US debt hold new risk and opportunity for investors.
In a recently published review, Brunel Pension Partnership vows to “turn the screws” on managers and its holdings via increased RI expectations and warns that rosier economic forecasts of lower interest rates and tamed inflation may not come true.
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