A coming of age

Today marks the relaunch of our publication with a new look and added features. I’m sure you’ll agree our amazing team of graphic and web designers have done a stellar job. While we have a new look, you can be assured we are not only maintaining, but honing, our fierce passion and dedication to advancing institutional investment best practice and will continue to tackle the issues we believe the industry needs to overcome to operate efficiently and serve its various constituents fairly and justly – particularly the workers whose money they manage. We aim to courageously challenge the industry on fees and value, investment transparency and complexity; governance, agency problems, decision making and organisational change; and importantly, ethics, integrity and systemic risks.

Our editorial will continue to showcase best practice, highlighting good news stories through case studies and in-depth interviews with chief investment officers and heads of pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and endowments.

In addition to original stories and editorials, our relaunch includes more voices in our publication and next year you will hear from some of the leading thinkers in our industry including academics, chief investment officers and consultants.

The new look conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com also marks a closer unity with our event series, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium.

This event, held twice a year, brings together global investors to examine the management of fiduciary assets looking at asset allocation, risk management, beta management and alpha generation.

It has become recognised as an event that challenges the influence and responsibility of fiduciary capital and explores the evolution in fiduciary investment management.

Sponsored Content

As institutional investors grow in asset size and power, bring more investments in house and demand more of their service providers, it is essential that they are equipped with contemporary thinking and technology. The event, and the subsequent stories we write from the excellent presentations, aim to arm investors with tools to do their jobs better.

The event series is hosted at leading educational institutions – including in the past Harvard, Oxford and Chicago Booth – and draws on some of the world’s leading investment thinkers.

The next event will be at King’s College, Cambridge University from April 10–12, 2016 and will enable institutional investors to engage with industry thought leaders in academia and practice in a collegiate environment that promotes shared discussion. Managing assets as a fiduciary comes with a complex range of responsibilities and commitments. This conference examines the holistic approach to fiduciary investing and how fiduciary management has evolved, including the wider responsibilities of long-term investors in stabilising financial markets, social welfare and environmental management.

Thank you for your support and we hope you enjoy the new publication.

Leave a Comment

Sort content by

Focusing on the long term: asset owners need to step up

Asset owners must step up and “join the fight” to end the focus on short-term results by companies and investment firms. Four practical steps to make this happen are outlined by president and chief executive of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Mark Wiseman, and global managing director of McKinsey, Dominic Barton, in the most recent

Free advice: Mercer’s 10 tips for DC plans in 2014

As the growth of defined contribution plans continues to outpace the defined benefit sector, the focus for those running defined contribution plan sponsors should be on meeting objectives, good governance and investment risk management. Consulting firm, Mercer, has some advice for the DC sector. According to Mercer establishing best practices across all areas of defined

Cardano and Monty Python collaborate on the crisis

Chief executive of Cardano UK, Kerrin Rosenberg, is a Monty Python fan. In the same eccentric vein as the famous satirists he has a healthy disrespect for the status quo and a quirky view of how pension assets should be managed, which for most funds includes a radical change in asset allocation. In 2010 Cardano,

New era for Barra risk modelling

MSCI’s risk management tool, BarraOne incorporated 31 private real estate models and a macro-factor asset allocation model in 2013 and this year will add global private equity analysis giving it coverage across all asset classes. BarraOne, which is widely used among investors for risk analysis and management, started as an equities analysis tool, but now

A new model of liquidity

The risk-adjusted benefit of being able to rebalance a portfolio is worth tens of basis points, according to new research that assigns risk and return measures to liquidity so it can be analysed alongside other portfolio decisions. The award-winning research is now being used by large sovereign wealth funds, to determine the value they should

Did they say that? CIO quotes from 2013

Each year conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com interviews CIOs and executive staff of the world’s largest asset owners, gaining insight into their investment strategy, asset allocation and demands from managers. In 2013 funds were focused on costs, increased portfolio look-through, “partnering” with managers and how to position fixed income exposures. This selection of quotes from CIOs of some of

Previous