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OECD, ITUC call for more green investment
Amid calls from global leaders for pension funds to invest more in the green economy, institutional green investments still languish at less than 1 per cent of portfolios. A recent OECD report looks at some of the barriers facing investors wanting to invest more in the sector, with regulatory uncertainty and a lack of suitable
Valuation and risk as the rhetoric-action gap on climate mitigation closes
In this live recording from Sustainability in Practice, hosted by Top1000funds.com at Cambridge University in April 2022, Professor Julian Allwood speaks with Colin Tate.
Howard Marks on alpha and making money
“It used to be easier to make money,” Oaktree Capital Management founder and chairman, Howard Marks muses as he discusses meeting the demands and goals of his clients in 2014. Marks is an avid communicator, and has been writing memos to clients for 24 years. The result is his book “The Most Important Thing”, which
Innovation brings results at Austria’s APK
Austria is a country with a strong tradition of innovation. That can be sensed through its nineteenth century industrial emergence to Gustav Klimt’s secessionist art movement in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna and the Austrian school of economics that later spawned monetarist pioneer, Friedrich Hayek. The APK pension fund is these days adding to the list of those
Calming the waters of uncertainty at UK seafarers’ fund
The UK’s £3.3-billion ($5.6-billion) Merchant Navy Officers’ Pension Fund (MNOPF) is poised to offload the final portion of its defined-benefit liabilities in the old section of the scheme. The fund, which has provided pensions to the shipping industry since 1937, comprises a $3.2-billion new section and a $2-billion old section, closed since 1978 and with
Montreal’s TCC: When a different world view pays off
Montreal-based Trans Canada Capital fuses its pension fund roots with the ethos of a relative value hedge fund for a unique investment approach that hunts uncorrelated alpha across the entire portfolio. Sarah Rundell speaks to two senior portfolio managers about their unique approach.
Columbia students solve governance problems
Financial studies students at one of New York’s most-respected business schools, Columbia Business School, are asked to suggest a new governance model for the State Common Retirement Fund, as its current model of a single trustee is held up to be “the worst example of governance” in a large pension fund in the developed world
Sovereign Development Funds: designing strategic investment institutions
The hunt for alpha is leading traditional investors toward more innovative strategies and operating models. And, significantly, one potential source of inspiration for long-term investors has come from an unconventional place: the community of sovereign development funds (SDFs). In this paper academics from Stanford University provide readers with analytical frameworks that can assist in the
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