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Sustainability

Border to Coast launches UK opportunities fund, measures impact

Border to Coast, the UK's LGPS pool for 11 partner funds, is planning to launch a new UK Opportunities strategy that will invest in private markets opportunities in-country, including venture and growth.

Sarah RundellJuly 27, 2023

Asset Classes

Factors trump skill: MSCI

MSCI research has shown that, among top-performing funds, more than half of active returns come from factors, rather than manager skill, and style factors have the biggest impact.

Amanda WhiteJuly 14, 2017

Uncategorised posts

Quality factor explained by profitability: Robert Novy-Marx

Among academic classifications, and the subsequent implementation of factor investing, “quality” is one of the newer areas of investigation. Robert Novy-Marx, the Lori and Alan S. Zekelman Professor of Finance at the University of Rochester, is leading the charge on the academic justification of quality as a factor, although he has a “jaded scepticism” about […]

Amanda WhiteJune 10, 2015

Investor Profile

Australian fund leading the way on real assets

The $15 billion Australian super fund for hospitality workers, HOSTPLUS, has a 10 per cent allocation to infrastructure and is aggressively increasing its allocation to real assets. David Rowley spoke to chief investment officer, Sam Sicilia, about what the fund seeks from real assets. A quarter of the $15 billion in assets held by […]

David RowleyFebruary 28, 2014