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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LPPI: Keeping AI risk in check

LPPI: Keeping AI risk in check

As the risk of an AI bubble grows, LPPI's Richard Tomlinson reflects on how the LGPS pool manages and measures AI exposure. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, he also explains how he has been moulding the fund's investment structure to be fit for a post-LGPS reform future.

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Navigating today’s global challenges to reimagine tomorrow’s markets

Simultaneous global challenges such as inequality, environmental degradation, financial instability and fragile supply chains are challenging contemporary capitalism’s ability to cope. MFS Investment Management president Carol Geremia says it is time to consider a new approach to build resilience and ensure long-term sustainability in markets and societies.

Rethinking emerging markets

Disappointing returns has investors re-thinking their exposures to emerging markets. A group of investors convened in London to explore opportunities including the new economy, the right risk/ return trade off and how to best gain exposure.

UK pension funds rue pressure to focus on the short term and group think

A group of investors at FIS Oxford reflect on the pressure to invest in the short term and the dangers of group think. Elsewhere they question if the private sector has capacity to find solutions to the climate emergency

APAC’s mega trends: The investors positioning for the future

APAC is positioned to benefit from some of the most exciting global trends that offer unparalleled investment opportunities. Previous features in this series have focused on the region’s diversification benefits, short-term opportunities, and why active strategies work best. Buckle up for the long-term view.

CPP Investments talks tech: Deployment not innovation; bullish on AI

The evolution, thinking and implementation of technology behind the investment process is a key focus for Jon Webster, CPP Investments chief operating officer. He explains how the fund sees technology as value enhancing, rather than as a cost.

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.

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