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The CIC has named a 14-member International Advisory Council, which will advise the board and senior management on issues including portfolio development, strategy, and overseas investments.
The oil spill from an investor’s perspective – not as bad
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not only the most devastating environmental disaster ever in the US, it raises issues around energy policies which continue to evolve. A client note from Russell Investments says energy stocks will continue to reflect the impact of the disaster and investors may well look at
COP: There might be disappointment, but it’s still the best hope we have
In the post-COP twilight with the initial assessment of pass or fail all written, institutional investors are rightly asking where we are up to at the end of 2022. Fiona Reynolds looks at what has changed and what remains the same.
From bonds to equities for GPIF
Since 2014, the Government Pension Investment Fund, the world’s largest investor, has shifted a chunk of its holdings, in domestic bonds to equities, and heightened its focus on stewardship.
More in-house management means lower costs, risks for Finnish fund Ilmarinen
The 21.7 billion (US$28.7 billion) Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company is adopting a ‘back to basic’ approach to investment and relying on its internal investment team to steer it through unprecedented equity market volatility. Deputy chief executive, Timo Ritakallio, talks to Kristen Paech about the virtues of in-house management.
Stock / bond correlations top of mind for Wisconsin
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board is incorporating top-down macro analysis of the drivers of stock-bond correlations into its risk management, including to assess the potential of a secular shift in the stock-bond correlation.
Stiglitz: No global recovery without equal access to vaccines
Celebrated economist Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia Business School, says the slowness in developing a comprehensive approach to debt in emerging markets and developing countries will result in a weaker global recovery. He urged for a restructuring of debt in a coordinated approach between the public and private sector.
Japan’s trifecta of challenges
After 18 years working with Japan’s leading pension funds and asset managers Chris Battaglia, president of the Global Fiduciary Symposium in Japan, is well placed to observe the pressures on the country’s retirement system and observes its evolution.
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