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AP2: SEC ‘no-action’ rollback could send more shareholder proposals to vote
AP2 has voiced its concerns around what impact the shift in US shareholder proposal exclusions, or the so-called “no-action letter” change, will bring to sustainability-conscious investors, as the Swedish buffer fund gears up for a busy year of engagement in 2026.
Why diversity is important: Calif. funds
CalPERS and CalSTRS recently hosted over 400 attendees from academia, business, and investment to explore the connection between diversity, human capital and performance. And gave participants tangible next steps on how to increase diversity within their workplace and fresh momentum to push the diversity cause.
Extreme risks
The events of the last two years have demonstrated that risk management cannot afford to stop at the 95th percentile, and that risk management based solely on volatility is not sufficient. This research paper by Tim Unger, head of investment strategy at Watson Wyatt Australia and member of the global Thinking Ahead Group, considers 15
Atleast 2023 until ‘normal’ returns
It will take at least an additional two years from now to eradicate the COVID-19 health pandemic despite various coronavirus vaccines being rolled out warned health experts at the FIS Digital 2020. Dr Ian Norton, former global head of WHO’s Emergency Medical Team Initiative, said a long road to normal still lies ahead.
Does ‘2 and 20’ still exist?
New research of hedge funds managers by Preqin shows it is clear the idea of a ‘2 and 20’ fee structure is outdated and, although less succinct, a more accurate reflection would be a “1.63 and 17.21” formula.
PRI to be more ‘hands-on’ with signatories as it seeks identity refresh
The UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is in the process of an organisational pivot as it looks to shift its primary function away from driving ESG accountability among investors (which it has been doing for the past two decades) to facilitating collaboration.
Understanding US/China relations
Understanding the fractious relationship between US and China is more important– and simultaneously more confronting – than it has been in the past, according to Stephen Kotkin, professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University. While the China investment challenge has always been to capture the aspirational middleclass, the high-profile historian says “the big money that’s going to be made in China is going to be made from the dislocation”.
EDHEC award-winning paper on dynamic allocation decisions
The Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (Inquire) Europe has recognised research by Professor Lionel Martellini, scientific director of EDHEC-Risk Institute developed in conjunction with Vincent Milhau, research engineer with EDHEC-Risk Institute. The paper, Dynamic Allocation Decisions in the Presence of Funding Ratio Constraints, can be accessed here. Inquire_Europe_Autumn_2009
How smart is ‘smart beta’ investing?
Investors increasingly embrace “smart beta” investing, by which we mean passively following an index in which stock weights are not proportional to their market capitalizations, but based on some alternative weighting scheme. Examples include fundamentally-weighted indices and minimum-volatility indices. In this whitepaper we first take a critical look at the pros and cons of smart
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