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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Scenario testing has put inflation risk front and centre at PMT, the Netherlands’ third largest pension fund, and it's driving the investor to take stock of the inflation protection it gets from infrastructure. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, chief investment officer Hartwig Liersch unpacks the risk, as well as another initiative where it's balancing concentration risk in the equity allocation without hurting returns.
The fast-growing UK DC fund, NEST, is reviewing its objectives and so how it allocates assets. Amanda White spoke to deputy CIO, Elizabeth Fernando about the implications for investments.
Dave Zellner, chief investment officer of Wespath Benefits and Investments, directly addresses the recent anti-ESG narrative, explaining Wespath's approach which means no political affiliation but assessing the risks and opportunities related to ESG factors.
Investors are piling into alternatives to escape low returns in liquid markets. But Henrik Olejasz Larsen, CIO of Denmark's Sampension, warns liquid markets signpost trouble ahead in alternatives, especially private equity.
Wrangles about ESG herald a time to step up on sustainable investing, not an excuse to give up argues Roger Urwin.
Dutch funds are feeling the squeeze of private equity fees, especially as beneficiaries face a cost of living crisis. Pensioenfonds PGB spends less on fees than others but CEO Harold Clijsen questions the options open to investors.
IPR’s Julian Poulter takes a sobering look at the inevitability that net zero is somewhere between very unlikely and impossible. net-zero aligned CIOs he suggests a new focus on three areas of impact: clean solution capital, negative emissions technologies and Asia.
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