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The creation of wealth, or alpha, is limited if your strategy is the traditional allocation between asset classes, instead investors need to embrace idiosyncratic risk to achieve wealth generation, which is at odds with modern portfolio theory’s ambition. Chief investment officer of the Institute for Advanced Study, Ashvin Chhabra (pictured), explores this in his latest
CEOs flag Bitcoin equivalent in carbon market
Ahead of COP26, Allianz’s Oliver Baete and Enel’s Francesco Starace join a panel discussion at the PRI’s annual conference on what policy makers urgently need to achieve. They are concerned the climate conference won’t bring the change that is needed to tackle the environmental emergency.
GPTB highlights transparency gaps
The Global Pension Transparency Benchmark has revealed the need for serious improvement in pension transparency across the globe.
Companies actions at odds with purpose
Being a signatory to the Business Roundtable’s statement of the purpose of a corporation did not bear fruit when it came to a company’s responsiveness to COVID-19 pandemic and inequality issues, a groundbreaking new initiative has revealed.
How to rewrite Modern Portfolio Theory to integrate climate risk
When it comes to climate risk, traditional scenario analysis leaves investors with more questions than answers and omits uncertainty around physical risk and the interaction between physical risk, inflation and tipping points. Investors need to abandon modern portfolio theory and find a new approach that focuses on short-term scenarios.
Malaysian investments favour domestic, cross-border strategies
To combat the financial crisis, Khazanah Nasional Berhard, the US$25.7 billion investment arm of the Malaysian government, will focus on catalysing domestic economic growth and continuing its program of strategic cross-border investments.
CEOs: Don’t ignore sustainability
Unilever’s former CEO Paul Polman advises CEOs pushing sustainability to treat investors and the financial markets as allies – and ignore sustainability at their peril. “You will be voted out”, he warns.
Bridgewater sees opportunity for impact and return in mining groups
After a decade of underinvestment, Carsten Stendevad, co-chief investment officer for sustainability at Bridgewater Associates sees impact and return opportunities in commodities.
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