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.
The twin forces rewriting the rules of investing
Portfolios built for the old world will be severely tested as emerging forces rewrite the rules of investing. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that geopolitical and macroeconomic upheaval, together with the disruption wrought by AI, should force asset owners to rethink the structure and composition of portfolios.
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Reckoning on growth: Why tech offers the solution
Daniel Susskind, author of "Growth: A Reckoning" argues that leaning into new technology will allow global economic growth without gobbling up the earth's finite resources.
SWIB develops model to highlight inflation risk
Using a factor model comprising real rates, inflation, growth and liquidity the State of Wisconsin Investment Board has "swapped binoculars for sunglasses" to see a new picture that effectively highlights inflation risk.
DC behemoths open up on cultural and investment growth
Nest and AustralianSuper, the largest defined contribution trust funds in their respective countries, face similar challenges related to growth. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium at the University of Oxford heard how the funds are leaning into their growth challenges from a cultural and investment perspective.
Why the impact of technology is limited only by the laws of physics
The potential of technology is constrained only by the laws of physics, whether classical or, increasingly, quantum. As the power of technology increases it allows us to understand the world in a lot more detail – including why the current path to net-zero isn’t going to work.
Asset owners proving trust goes hand-in-hand with transparency
Transparency is key to building trust according to executives at Norges Bank and the United Nations Staff Pension Fund. They discussed the benefits, and limitations of transparency at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at the University of Oxford.
AI is a copilot, not a driver, of asset owner organisational change
The use of AI in asset owners’ investment operations continues to proliferate but increasingly they’re setting clear boundaries around what it is and is not permitted to do, while resisting the temptation to allow AI to dictate organisational change.




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