I chat with Alex on his experiences across a range of environments, the role of machine learning in Australia’s future and how to best deploy data science in academia and industry.
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The UK’s LGPS pool, £120 billion ($161 billion) Border to Coast, is hunting for strategic relationships with asset managers and global asset owners as it prepares to invest £40 billion in private markets. Chief executive Rachel Elwell speaks to Top1000funds.com about the fund's approach to finding long-term partnerships in the market.
Rory Murphy, chair of the Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund, recounts the scheme's journey to delegating investment decisions and says being a good trustee is all about steering the ship.
The $10 billion Textron pension fund lowers fees and increases its influence by backing new product designs with capital. CIO Charles Van Vleet embraces active and some blasts from the past.
Corporate failings and their impact on UK pension schemes are damaging the reputations of lay trustees, but they remain critical assets for pension boards, professor Robin Ellison argues.
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.
Adding nearly two dozen staff and boosting its expertise in order to manage its property and equity assets has paid off in savings – and more importantly control – for the UK’s RPMI Railpen.
Investors seeking to link the UN Sustainable Development Goals to their strategies can reduce tropical deforestation associated with agricultural commodities by influencing portfolio companies.
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