Campbell Harvey: Factor investing beyond the snake oil

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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Michael Pettis on China’s overinvestment paradox, and the Japan-style reckoning still to come

Michael Pettis on China’s overinvestment paradox, and the Japan-style reckoning still to come

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.

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CPP shares the playbook for pushing corporates on scope 1, 2 emissions

A quarter of companies in CPP Investments' public equity allocation still don’t report Scope 1 and 2 emissions - one of the most fundamental indicators of whether a corporate board is engaging on the climate emergency.

Under-priced climate risk plagues pension portfolios

Climate risk remains systematically under-priced and the world isn’t on course for net zero. Investors need to prepare for the risks of climate and environmental change and re-evaluate the risk in their portfolios, University of Oxford researcher Nicola Ranger warned delegates to Sustainability in Practice.

Emerging tech and a little pragmatism make biodiversity investible

Finding “nature positive” companies to invest in is a challenge, delegates to Sustainability in Practice at the University of Oxford have heard. But Institutional investors can play a key role in turning corporate laggards into leaders.

Being joined-up: Why it’s so important

Climate change is the mother of all super-wicked problems, according to Roger Urwin, who argues that being joined-up will help asset owners with the holistic thinking and cross-agency coordination needed to tackle the complexity.

PGGM prepares to incorporate impact in three dimensional approach

Dutch asset manager PGGM is working with Bridgewater Associates to integrate impact across its portfolio. PGGM's Arjen Pasma and Bridgewater's Carsten Stendevad discuss the strategy, which promises to dramatically reshape PGGM's €228 billion portfolio.

Sustainability in Practice: Time to get realistic about net zero

Many asset owners have net zero commitments in place, but few of these targets are being met with implementation. In the opening session of Sustainability in Practice at the University of Oxford, delegates discuss how investors should get realistic about net zero.

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