COVID Popup Podcast: Curious Quant and Nick Wade discuss if risk models have something to say about pandemic risk.

Nick Wade from Northfield and the Curious Quant discuss the impact of COVID on risk modeling frameworks, assumptions, and how the recent movements in asset markets may or may not impact the short and long-term assumptions of asset owners. 

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Impact investing’s case for scale

Impact investing’s case for scale

Impact investing has come a long way in the past two decades, going from a niche strategy to a $1.5 trillion industry, but there are still challenges for it to reach institutional scale due to the lack of products and insufficient evidence of outperformance in some parts of the market.

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NBIM’s RI report showcases benefits of transparency

Risk-based divestments increased returns on Norges Bank Investment Management's equity portfolio by 0.07 per cent in 2023. Measuring the impact of its investment decisions, reported in NBIM's latest RI Report, is part of a concerted drive for greater transparency by the manager of Norway's Government Pension Fund Global.

CalSTRS’ Ailman talks GFC, climate risk and worrying levels of US debt

After 23 years in charge, CalSTRS departing CIO Chris Ailman has more stories from the investment frontline than most. He shares personal recollections of the GFC, his fears of the scale of the climate emergency and why worrying levels of US debt hold new risk and opportunity for investors.

Brunel keeps wary eye on markets and raises manager reporting duties

In a recently published review, Brunel Pension Partnership vows to “turn the screws” on managers and its holdings via increased RI expectations and warns that rosier economic forecasts of lower interest rates and tamed inflation may not come true.

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark makes process improvements

The Global Pension Transparency Benchmark, a collaboration between Top1000funds.com and CEM Benchmarking, ranking pension funds globally on their transparency of disclosures, will make a number of process improvements to the 2024 survey.

PGGM revamps fixed income; focuses on liquidity

PGGM's Wilfried Bolt explains how the end of quantitative easing (QE) has changed the asset manager's hedging strategy and prompted a keen focus on liquidity. He also explains the rationale behind managing more of the corporate bond allocation in house.

Early adopters to nature related disclosure nut out challenges

NBIM, KLP, AP7 and CIV are integrating new nature-related risks in their portfolios in accordance with TNFD recommendations. In contrast to the focus on emissions in sister framework TCFD, a key challenge is finding a cause to hone in on given nature is frequently complex and intangible.

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