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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Piecing together the impact investing puzzle

Ben Thornley, co-founder at Tideline, looks at how value creation practices bring a manager’s impact credentials into sharper focus, the strong positive correlation between impact and financial performance, and the role of allocators in incentivizing and enabling managers to deliver impact value.

PUBLICA builds alternatives through partnerships

In the latest development of its private market portfolio, Swiss pension fund PUBLICA is investing in infrastructure equity in a partnership with three other Swiss pension funds and Dutch pension investor APG.

Divestment and impact: Detailhandel pioneers participant engagement

Dutch fund Detailhandel takes participant engagement to a new level as it begins to integrate feedback and preferences from a three day beneficiary forum into investment strategy.

UTIMCO telegraphs opportunities in small caps ahead

Small caps have lagged returns in the S&P500 and stand to benefit most from rate cuts because of floating rate debt. It's why UTIMCO's chief Rich Hall forecasts investors opportunities ahead.

The complexity, limitation, evolution and liberation of climate benchmarks

Benchmarks are highlighted in the recent CFA Institute paper as among the historical norms that make investing in climate challenging. MSCI Institute’s Linda-Eling Lee talks about the complexities and evolution of climate benchmarks including the use of balanced scorecard-toolkits that are improving the technology.

GPIF stewardship report highlights power of engagement

Key findings from the GPIF's stewardship report finds engagement leads to more companies introducing KPIs and corporate Scope 3 emission reporting often results in companies reporting more emissions than they have.

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