Climate group calls for investor power
Climate Change 100+, a five-year initiative to help carbon emitters navigate the move to clean energy, has built momentum and needs fund managers and investors to propel it even further.
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AI to transform GPIF manager selection
The $1.4 trillion Japanese fund will use deep-learning technology to monitor and evaluate the styles and processes of managers more effectively and pressure them to adopt high-tech tools.
GPIF’s Mizuno heaps change on managers
As CIO of the world’s largest pension fund, Hiro Mizuno has restructured fees and forced a focus on ESG and stewardship. Now the fund is using AI to make sure managers practice what they pitch.
GPIF fee structure aligns interests
The world’s largest investor restructured how it pays its active mandates to get more certainty from managers. Its actions, which were taken after self-reflection, will affect the entire sector.
GPIF insists on paying only for alpha
Hiro Mizuno, CIO of the world's largest investor, told the CFA conference that in exchange for multi-year commitments its mandates would now claw back fees when firms don't reach alpha targets.
GPIF seeks better beta through ESG
You can't beat the market if you are the market. That's reality for Japan's behemoth pension fund; therefore, it looks to improve overall returns by engaging and investing with an ESG focus.
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