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.
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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How long-term investors should think about stock-bond correlations
Asset owners that are long-term investors should be wary of the conventional model of assessing the stock-bond correlation that is based on several “implicit assumptions”, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard. Instead, the question investors should be asking is: are bonds a hedge or a risk?
AI already driving ‘biggest transformation in the economy we’ve ever seen’
The economic impact of AI can be better measured if every job is broken down into its component tasks, and the impact on each of those tasks is valued. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that on this basis, we’re seeing the biggest economic transformation ever.
Long-duration storage, digitisation key to cracking the energy transition
Packing more energy into smaller batteries is one crucial technological development to help achieving the energy transition within the necessary timeframes, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard, and there are enormous economic opportunities ahead as industry races to unlock solutions.
Winds of change blowing through private credit markets
The influx of capital and interest into the private credit market has spawned new managers and offerings, but asset owners are increasingly alert to the fact that not every one of them is built equal, and even tiny losses during the credit cycle can eat significantly into long-term returns.
Changing geopolitical risks are getting harder to manage – but here’s how
The changing nature of geopolitical risks has made them harder to manage, even though the adversaries to an American-led world order have remained nearly the same over the decades. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard a key difference is that everything that happens everywhere is now interconnected.
Macro risks, opportunities prompt rethink of portfolios
Investment heads at large global funds are cutting down on risk, making higher allocations to equities and shifting focus to absolute returns as they reorganise portfolios to future-proof against global macro risks on the horizon, and to take advantage of potential opportunities, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard.
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