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.
Why traditional investment committees can amplify group biases
Investment committee meetings, a governance cornerstone at every asset owner organisation, run the risk of amplifying group biases and social dynamics, and can push the IC towards recommending more extreme investment positions collectively than the average of their individual views. Bernhard Scherer, head of portfolio implementation at ADIA, unpacks the thesis in a new paper.
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Mezzanine opportunities in real estate
Institutional investors could consider the issuance of new performing senior and mezzanine debt as a lower risk opportunity in real estate, according to a new paper, “Real estate debt – from crisis comes opportunity”.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Investing in inflation protection
This paper by Anand Iyer and Jennifer Bender from MSCI, acknowledges that the current tug-of-war between inflation and deflation has created considerable confusion for investors, and explores these characteristics of inflation-protected bonds to see if, and to what extent, they have contributed to portfolio diversification and provided investors with protection from inflation and deflation.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored
How emerging markets are taking over in cleantech
While the emerging world is often considered a problem for global attempts to control or reduce carbon emissions, from an investment perspective it looks as if these countries may be currently offering more and better opportunities.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Aussie investors should get out more: Urwin
Australian institutions’ prevailing home-country equity bias was based on a series of lucky breaks for the domestic market and was not worth the concentration risks to which it exposed investors, said Roger Urwin, Towers Watson’s global head of investment content. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
New Jersey hunts for consultants
The New Jersey Investment Council, which manages the state pension funds, is looking for a general investment consultant and consultant for three specialist investment classes.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Canadian funds in co-investment deal
The trend for co-investment in infrastructure has continued in Canada with two large funds, OTPP and OMERS, partnering to purchase the High Speed 1 (HS1), Britain’s only high-speed rail link to the Channel Tunnel.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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