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Confident Yale validates investment strategy with private equity increase……
The $16.3 billion Yale endowment has increased its long-term allocation to private equity from 21 to 26 per cent, and increased the real assets exposure from 29 to 37 per cent.
Enhanced tech capabilities makes reinforcement learning viable
What was once too intense to be utilised by computing processes, reinforcement learning has become a viable tool for asset owners. John Hull, Maple Financial chair in derivatives and risk management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium this now outperforms simpler modelling approaches.
Pension fund performance and costs: small is beautiful
This new paper by Rob Bauer, Martijn Cremers, and Rik Frehen uses the CEM pension fund data set to document the cost structure and performance of a large sample of US pension funds. It finds that small-cap mandates of defined-benefit funds have outperformed their benchmarks by about 3 per cent per year. Concluding that while
Infrastructure: Adding value through ESG
Infrastructure investments face many and complex challenges including sustainability. This session looked at specific case studies of ESG in legacy infrastructure as well as the investor priorities with regards to green energy infrastructure.
CalPERS, NY pensions challenge SpaceX’s ‘unfireable’ CEO provision ahead of mammoth IPO
Three of the largest US pension funds, managing a combined $1 trillion in assets, have demanded a meeting with SpaceX executives ahead of its speculated blockbuster IPO warning that its proposed corporate plan could be “the most management-favourable governance structure ever brought to the US public markets”.
Global search activity down, but US pension funds hire and fire
US pension funds increased their manager search activity in 2008 on the back of large losses in equity markets, while funds in the UK, Europe and Australia ditched searches to concentrate on strategy issues.
All the elements of a difficult year
Some trends have the potential to pack the impact of a force of nature in markets in 2019. Mercer takes a look at threats and opportunities from choppy waters of the late cycle, headwinds in market participation, geopolitical tremors, and the unstoppable force of sustainability.
TCFD disclosures are not hitting the mark
G7 nations have endorsed mandatory climate-related financial disclosures based TCFD framework recommendations, but a survey of Canadian investors found the TCFD disclosures are less insightful than most had anticipated.
Water crisis deserves the same attention from investors as climate change
The historical undervaluing of water as a resource, combined with climate change, is impacting communities around the world and posing a systemic risk to investor portfolios, argues Ceres’ Brooke Barton, a key figure behind the Valuing Water Finance Initiative.
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