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Ditching finance stereotypes key to recruiting women to investment teams
Australia’s Aware Super is calling for more women in core portfolio management and trading roles to “move the dial” on closing the gender pay gap. Head of income assets, Sonia Baillie, said Hollywood-style hedge fund manager stereotypes is making it difficult for young women to imagine themselves in investment roles.
Meeting the social infrastructure need
The current coronavirus crisis has exposed many weaknesses, one of them being the chronic under-investment in social infrastructure in most countries – developed and emerging. So what can be done to make this more attractive for investors and meet the need?
The end of risk management: What finance can learn from climate science
In this Fiduciary Investors Series podcast Amanda White talks to Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor of Environmental Economics and the director of the economics sustainability programme at the University of Oxford.
Look beyond the Western headlines to get real story about Chinese market
Investors in China need to look beyond the top-down narratives coming from foreign countries and media to dig up the true story of what’s really happening in the market, argued Lirong Xu, the Shanghai-based chief investment officer of Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Management.
US sovereign wealth fund could be a game-changer – if it’s well governed
The proposed US sovereign wealth fund remains shrouded in uncertainty as the deadline to release a plan for it quietly passed without announcements from the White House. Debates about the need for it continue, but Stanford academic Ashby Monk argues clear purpose and sound governance are what truly matter.
Time for a coordinated approach
The US Federal Reserve has fired its last round of ammunition, cutting interest rates to zero, in a move that continues to see it play from the monetary policy songbook. Some market commentators doubt whether it will be enough to prop up markets, raising the question of whether it is finally time for a more coordinated fiscal and monetary policy approach.
Trustee standards set by Rest case
Earlier this month the Australian fund, Rest, settled a case with one of its members, Mark McVeigh, who claimed the fund breached its duty by not properly considering the risks posed by climate change. Here, McVeigh’s lawyers write exclusively for Top1000funds.com and explain the significance of the case for pension funds around the globe.
The vaccine
This session looks at the development of a vaccine for COVID-19 and what cooperation is needed to fight the virus.
US public pension funds lag on climate
Only 16 of the 74 largest public pension plans in the US mention ESG or responsible investing in their public documents. Scott Kalb looks at why the US is so far behind.
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