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.
COVID Popup Podcast: Curious Quant and Nick Wade discuss if risk models have something to say about pandemic risk.
CPP, NBIM CEOs swap notes on leading through teams, not bureaucracy
In a high-level exchange between two of the world's largest and most sophisticated asset owners, CPP Investments’ chief executive John Graham shared a leadership lesson with Norges Bank Investment Management chief executive Nicolai Tangen: having an aligned senior team is one of the most critical things a leader can build. The two funds, which are consistently leaders in transparency, also exchanged playbooks on managing bureaucracy at large organisations.
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Strategic asset allocation for long-term investors
This Netspar research by Hoevenaars, Molenaar, Schotman and Steenkamp studies the effect of parameter uncertainty on the long-run risk of three alternative asset classes: equity, nominal bonds and short-term T-bills.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Defining the game is two sides of same coin
A constant whispering in the hallway of pension plans is how to prepare for the inevitable move from a defined benefit to defined-contribution structure. But fiduciaries shouldn’t be scared, the game’s the same, at least psychologically.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
APG’s IMQubator launches second fund
Dutch Pension fund administrator APG will open up innovative investment ideas to other institutional investors, with the IMQubator hedge fund seeding platform it has backed launching a second fund to channel money to emerging managers.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Myths may shackle SWFs
Chair of the A$75billion ($79bn) Australian Future Fund, and outgoing chair of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds, David Murray (pictured), believes sovereign wealth funds are at risk of discrimination if some key myths about their structure and investment intentions are not discussed.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
CalPERS slams ‘smoke and mirrors’ report
CalPERS has hit out at a report calling for radical change in the way California public sector pension benefits are calculated, describing the authors’ methodology as flawed and ideologically slanted.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
SWFs could help global stability: forum
SWFs, as long-term investors, could play a countercyclical role in providing global financial and economic stability, the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds concluded last week in Beijing.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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