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Biases: COVID-19 vaccines and investing in China
Liang Yin from the Thinking Ahead Institute examines omission bias as an explanation for vaccine resistance, and underweighting investments to China. He suggests a framework for overcoming this bias.
Cost saving on radar for Canada’s PSP as more assets come inhouse
The C$41 billion ($38 billion) Public Sector Pension Investment Board plans to bring more assets in house in a bid to lower costs, and will increase the number of direct investments to increase control, the chair Paul Cantor said at the annual public meeting.
US Department of Treasury surveys systemic risk
Part of the mandate given to US regulators by the Dodd Frank Act is to measure and monitor systemic risk, but more than one risk measure is needed to capture the complex and adaptive nature of the financial system. The Office of Financial Research, part of the US Department of Treasury, has put together a
Future Fund adds risk and generates best-ever return
The Future Fund, Australia’s A$196.8 billion sovereign wealth fund raised its risk profile in the year to June 30, resulting in the fund’s best-ever one-year result of 22.2 per cent.
The cult of transparency has a price
You have to feel sorry for the investment professionals at large public sector pension funds around the world. They must pay a big price for the transparency of their funds.
Unprecedented opportunity ahead
The climate challenge requires new investment on a staggering scale: new generating capacity, the electrification of everything, emissions-free fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, new supply chains and infrastructure, plus the building of negative emissions technologies. Stanford’s Dr Arun Majumdar explores the opportunities for new investment, the risk return trade-off and how investors should approach the opportunities.
Secular growth in emerging markets and how to access it
This paper by Scott Berg, global large cap equity portfolio manager at T Rowe Price examines the secular growth trends that have underpinned emerging markets and whether there is still an argument for exposure to these markets within a global equities portfolio.
Climate change dwarfs euro crisis when seen from afar
Someone once told me the reason the Dalai Lama is always smiling, even when he’s talking about war, is that his view of the world, and all its troubles, is like a knowing father watching a child work through the wonderment and challenges of life. It is with this view that institutional investors must face
Under-priced climate risk plagues pension portfolios
Climate risk remains systematically under-priced and the world isn’t on course for net zero. Investors need to prepare for the risks of climate and environmental change and re-evaluate the risk in their portfolios, University of Oxford researcher Nicola Ranger warned delegates to Sustainability in Practice.
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