I chat with Campbell, Professor of Finance at Duke University, on the future of quantitative finance, academic journals, model fitting and the intellectual fallacies within inference.
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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.
In 2023, readers embraced our in-depth analysis and Investor Profiles as we continue our quest for a deeper understanding of institutional investment best practice and driving the industry to produce better outcomes for stakeholders. Below is a look at the most popular stories of 2023.
Helmsley Charitable Trust is meeting new investment managers on the hunt for new exposures and allocations in the new economic regime. On the eve of her departure Rosalind Hewsenian explains how she approaches new manager relationships.
Fixed income, once a stabilising force for asset-rich Japanese corporate pension funds, now struggles to counter stock and currency volatility. Japanese investors are reducing fixed income, and heavily diversifying their portfolio as high currency hedging costs prompt caution, seeking shelter in short-term strategies amid uncertainties surrounding global central bank policies.
After 18 years working with Japan’s leading pension funds and asset managers Chris Battaglia, president of the Global Fiduciary Symposium in Japan, is well placed to observe the pressures on the country’s retirement system and observes its evolution. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
日本の企業年金基金が資産運用先を模索している。足元で国内金利は上昇してきたものの、債券投資は日銀の政策修正による金利上昇（価格下落）リスクが大きい。外債は為替ヘッジコストが高すぎる。「運用難」の中、一部の基金は、オルタナティブやクレジットなど非伝統的資産に活路を見出そうとしている。 mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
After COP28 Tim Hodgson says the investment industry needs to decide whether the transition away from fossil fuels will be too little, too late or whether net zero by 2050, with all the associated transformational consequences, is possible. Either way the industry needs to “get really good at intertemporal risk management”.
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