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Australia’s climate emergency
In the midst of the worst bushfires in Australia’s history, CEO of the PRI, Fiona Reynolds, an Australian living in London is calling on investors to play a leading role in encouraging governments to be ambitious in their climate policy.
IMF calls on industry
to lobby governments
The IMF has called on the pension and investment industry to lobby governments to ensure policy initiatives are implemented, action that is critical to achieving the projected 3.6 per cent in global economic growth. Speaking to delegates at the Conexus Financial Fiduciary Investors Symposium, Prakash Loungani, senior resource manager and advisor to the IMF’s research
Study links executives’ pay and behaviour
This research, commissioned by APG (the investment division of ABP, the €208 billion Dutch pension fund), examines the published literature on the link between remuneration and executive behaivour. It was conducted by the London Business School.
Impact in public markets
Karen Karniol-Tambour, discusses frameworks for assessing the sustainability and impact characteristics of public assets including equities, fixed income assets and commodities which investors can apply to their own portfolios.
Davos 2020 for institutional investors
The World Economic Forum’s annual shindig in the Swiss alpine resort of Davos was all about sustainability in 2020 with some specific outtakes for investors around carbon. There were other lessons for investors too, like caution around illiquid assets and the perils of negative yielding debt.
A sustainability taxonomy for investors
The EU expert group for sustainable finance has published a taxonomy, or green encyclopedia, that gives guidance to investors looking to finance the transition to an economy in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. PGGM’s Brenda Kramer, who is a member of the EC’s sustainable finance technical expert group, explains how this could be a game changer in the long term.
A new route to minimising volatility
Defensive equity investment strategies are nothing new, but a key issue with many is that defensive does not necessarily mean low volatility. Scientific Beta looks at a strategy to target both goals, using robust low volatility controls to create a new defensive index for the volatility-averse investor.
CPP Investments’ COVID journey
In this Fiduciary Investors Series podcast Amanda White talks with Geoffrey Rubin, chief investment strategist at CPP Investments, which manages the investments of Canada’s largest pension fund with about C$410 billion of assets. They discuss scenario planning, the benefits of total portfolio management, rebalancing and liquidity as well as the forward-looking view of the global
How good is good enough?
The chair of the newly created EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, PRI’s chief responsible investment officer Nathan Fabian, explains how the platform will support financial markets to steward and allocate their capital to activities that contribute substantially to Europe’s sustainability goals.
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