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China's advanced infrastructure and ballooning debt are two sides of the same story, says Carnegie Endowment nonresident senior fellow Michael Pettis, who compares China's coming consumption-led rebalancing to Japan's in the 1980s. In conversation with Top1000funds.com Asia Pacific correspondent Darcy Song, Pettis unpacks what this means for institutional investors weighing China exposure over multi-decade horizons, and why he remains bearish on the country's outlook.
As governments welcome pension fund investment in infrastructure, the asset class facilitates the practical integration of the SDGs and ESG, Cbus Super CIO Kristian Fok told delegates.
Initiatives such as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board are vital for providing the consistent, regular, high-quality disclosure on the SDGs that investors need, a panel told delegates.
The $37 billion Utah Retirement Systems (URS) will allocate to private equity managers directly, rather than through funds-of-funds, for the first time since it began investing in the asset class 35 years ago.
Long-time Unilever chief executive Paul Polman told delegates the world’s companies and executives needed to adopt a long-term focus and many other changes to create an inclusive economic system.
An expert panel argues that the objectives of the Paris Agreement can’t be achieved without stopping deforestation and looks to technology for some ways to make it happen.
Trying to find ways to get colleagues to embrace responsible investment strategies can be frustrating but it becomes easier when the business case includes the bottom line.
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