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A new climate index at Danish investor PenSam aims to solve the overweight to tech stocks, a common problem for sustainable investors give the sector is low emitting and solving many of the challenges of climate change.
Not drowning, waving: quants on the comeback trail
Quantitative investing has taken a battering during the global financial crisis, with many big firms suffering lower-than-average performance for much of the past two years. But the stuff that gave quants a compelling story before investor behavioural biases – is now helping them again.
Investor case study: Using AI in investments
Wei Xie explained the OPTrust focus on two subdomains of machine learning – reinforcement learning and uncertainty modelling – and how they can be used together.
Dialogue has limited power for Ethical Council
The Ethical Council, a collaboration between the Swedish funds AP1-4, concluded dialogues with four companies in 2009 after achieving its ethical objectives, but unsuccessful dialogue with Elbit Systems has resulted in the funds excluding the company from their portfolios effective immediately.
What to ask companies this AGM season
APG and CalSTRS are leading a collaboration with PRI that provides investors with ESG-related questions to ask investee companies about their responses to COVID-19.
Investors can help prevent “race to the bottom” on labour conditions
Sick leave and paid parental leave, credible efforts to document pay equity, violations of collective bargaining laws, and employee mobility are some of the metrics asset owners can use to assess the labour practices of companies in which they invest, says labour lawyer Sharon Block.
Israel joins European standouts with highest rating in Mercer pension index
For the third consecutive year the retirement income systems of The Netherlands, Iceland and Denmark were given the highest rating in the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension index, with Israel also joining the top rank this year.
CIOs’ predictions for 2024
In a year forecast to be volatile, and with the spectre of recession still very much on the cards, Top1000funds.com finds CIOs exploring new strategies, paring back on active equity, investing in technology and wrestling with the many disparate approaches to sustainability.
APG develops ESG indexes
A new set of responsible investing indexes, developed by APG and Qontigo, allow investors to measure and report on the impact on risk and return of individual ESG criteria.
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