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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As Finland's pension funds prepare to increase their equity allocations to unprecedented levels compared to global peers, they must also navigate a new and unfamiliar risk. Elo's chief investment officer Jonna Ryhänen explains the fund's investment approach going forward and how it will manage stakeholder and media scrutiny as they react to swinging volatility and returns.
As the battle for talent intensifies, one CIO reflects on the best way to recruit and retain staff; elsewhere investments in dollars and real assets provide ballast in a challenging investment environment.
Two veterans of the asset owner community, Theresa Whitmarsh, former executive director of the Washington State Investment Board and Hiro Mizuno, former CIO of the Japan Government Pension Investment Fund, are behind a new template that applies legal language to how asset managers integrate ESG
“A forecast is a prediction; we’re saying what we think will happen. A scenario is different . . . it generally looks much further out and is trying to build a picture of the future in extreme uncertainty.” — Seb Henbest mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, BCI, the $200 billion asset manager for around 30 Canadian pension funds and insurers, is planning to double its private debt allocation. Sarah Rundell spoke to Daniel Garant about the shifts in the portfolio and the focus on active management.
In a recent stewardship update, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, warned that it will support fewer shareholder resolutions on climate change this year because they have become too extreme and prescriptive.
The Church of England Pensions Board led change in the mining industry by engaging with the issue rather than individual companies. The process led to the introduction of new standards on tailings dams.
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