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.
WTW’s Urwin defends TPA value-add as attribution scrutiny intensifies
Roger Urwin, one of the industry’s most well-known proponents of TPA, has defended it against the growing scepticism of its reported performance edge over SAA, saying “TPA is a system” and any performance attribution is difficult to isolate from the broader context each fund operates in. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, he also weighs in on whether some funds are inherently unsuitable for implementing TPA.
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Investors put private equity performance under the microscope
Investors are seeking better performance attribution in private markets to better understand underlying return drivers – especially in private equity, where metrics such as IRR or multiples are increasingly criticised for being opaque. HarbourVest made the case for an alternative attribution method at FIS Harvard.
The ‘space economy’ is a legal and literal vacuum for investors
The looming SpaceX IPO has put the spotlight firmly on the so-called ‘space economy’, but asset owners have been urged to exercise caution about investing in a sector that still resembles the wild west, with no legal or governance framework to protect capital. That’s not to say money will not be made, but it might not be in the areas investors first expect.
Photo gallery: Fiduciary Investors Symposium 2026 at Harvard University
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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.
CPP outlines risk playbook for a new world order
The $570 billion CPP Investments is strengthening efforts around scenario analysis as volatile fiscal, geopolitical and economic risk factors plunge the macro environment into a state of flux, with the fund naming four scenarios for the future world order within its risk management framework.
Asset owners must prepare for ‘fast and furious’ AI debt wave
Corporate AI implementation is accelerating, not decelerating, all around the world, and the capital need is vast, with significant debt issuance still to come. Asset owners have to decide where they want to get involved, and how.
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