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Nicolette Rubinsztein: Happy ageing: lifelong health, wellbeing and contentment
How to ensure a happy retirement for all Australians? How can we predict people who will age happily? This session will dispel certain myths and draw on research from the Blue Zones, a Harvard longitudinal study and the works of Ellen Langer and George Va
FIS Cambridge 2019: wrap up
The Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Cambridge University brought together more than 70 asset owners from 15 countries to discuss asset owners responsibility to engage with policymakers, barriers to long term investing and risks including ESG, climate and cyber security. Brett Himbury, chief executive of IFM Investors revealed how an asset manager defines its behaviours and
The future of funds management
Given the extreme volatility in markets, the changing global economic risks and policy responses, what is the future of the funds management industry?
Axa gets behind tobacco-free portfolios
Axa divested from tobacco in 2016 making it one of the first global insurance companies to do so. It has taken that a step further and now doesn’t insure tobacco companies. Amanda White speaks to the chair of Axa, Denis Duverne, on why this is a natural part of the company’s strategy.
Inside CPP Investments’ TPA engine
TPA allows investors to better manage investment trade-offs, such as liquidity, costs and alpha, and has public and private investments compete explicitly on a common risk-adjusted basis, according to a new paper by CPP Investments. The Canadian giant, which has been practising TPA for two decades, says TPA cannot eliminate uncertainty, but it helps build resilience to it.
Climate Change: Is a Just Transition Possible?
Why climate change is not just an environmental issue.
Private capital opportunities grow
It’s been said the “public market is quickly becoming a holding pen for massive sleepy corporations”. This has investors taking more late-stage stakes in private companies as perceived risks ebb.
FIS 2020: Networking roundtables
The final session of FIS Digital 2020 allowed investors to ‘meet’ and share ideas via private networking groups using a breakthrough technology.
PGGM, CalPERS detail climate policies
Dutch pension giant PGGM explained how viewing climate risk through many lenses helped it address uncertainty, while California’s CalPERS discussed its proactive governance with big emitters.
