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Systemic risk could be the silver bullet everyone is looking for in portfolio management, with high systemic risk in markets proven to be a precursor to heightened tail risk.
Utah Retirement Systems: Why ESG is a waste of time
Divestment doesn’t work, scope 3 reporting will tie companies in regulatory knots and ESG integration threatens pension funds long term returns and their ability to finance the transition. Utah Retirement Systems’ John Skjervem says the only way to solve the climate emergency is to keep investing in fossil fuels.
Accenture puts diversity into action
Anna Darnley, 24, recently joined the board of Accenture’s UK pension scheme. She and chair Peter George discuss achieving age and gender balance, and what her perspective brings.
Accountability, performance at the heart of Temasek’s three-way split
Singapore’s Temasek has unveiled its biggest organisational overhaul in more than a decade, splitting its investment portfolio into three entities to “sharpen” investment focus, boost accountability and align performance metrics. It came as the fund targets a 60/40 split between the “resilient” and “dynamic” assets to weatherproof its portfolio.
Return targets head downward
The challenging market environment is putting pressure on pension funds. In response, many are lowering return targets, rather than taking on more risk or requesting larger contributions.
CalPERS mulls leverage
The board of the United States’ largest pension fund calls in the experts as it considers applying leverage in its portfolio, part of efforts to improve a 68 per cent liability-funding ratio.
Centrica focuses on dynamic decision making
For the Centrica pension fund, which adopts a liability-matching portfolio approach, last year was busy for appraising new opportunities arising out of the fact banks are no longer lending. This year its focus is on being more dynamic. Amanda White spoke to chief investment officer of the £5.5 billion ($9 billion), Chetan Ghosh. The Centrica
Why investors should de-carbonise
Regardless of moral and scientific arguments, the “risk of policy action” on climate change is enough reason for institutional investors to consider climate risk as having real impact on their portfolios. As an example investors at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Chicago Booth School of Business were told that investment-grade bonds in the coal sector
AustralianSuper CIO Mark Delaney
Mark Delaney sees an opportunity to make money from Brexit and a bright side to the tumult of US President Donald Trump.
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