In this episode, Alex Proimos, head of domestic content, Conexus Financial, chats with David Bell, executive director of the Conexus Institute, about a range of topics including governance models, market timing, heatmaps and early access.
TPA: Built on essentials, shaped by levers
As asset owners grapple with the appropriateness of a total portfolio approach for their fund, new ICPM research has outlined building blocks to be considered in the process including some essential “enablers”, like governance structures, and optional “levers”, like incentive architecture. ICPM managing director Adrian Trollor unpacks the framework.
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WSIB gears up for social and environmental push in private equity
Washington State Investment Board has seen the impact of its expansive private equity program through investee-company employee schemes and climate-focused impact funds. Now WSIB is set to put much more pressure on private equity to integrate ESG in portfolio companies. Sarah Rundell spoke to chief executive, Allyson Tucker.
Beyond traditional asset allocation
Today’s challenging climate has led diversified investors like GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, to explore different approaches to portfolio construction to build resilience. Grace Qiu and Ding Li, both senior vice presidents in total portfolio policy and allocation at GIC discuss their new research.
Recession “very difficult to avoid” under tightening monetary policy
Randall Kroszner, Federal Reserve governor from 2006 to 2009, praises the Fed for acting decisively to bring inflation under control, but predicts a lot of pain ahead for global markets.
Fundamentally resetting reporting
WTW’s Thinking Ahead Institute has developed an alternative attribution tool giving investors a view on the long-term drivers of performance. Tim Hodgson explains the benefits of the open source tool including improved conversations between managers and asset owners about return drivers and providing clarity on how ESG objectives are managed.
Fama, the father of modern finance, talks stock picking, ESG and democracy
Stock picking is not a solution to today’s challenging investment environment, warned Eugene F. Fama, The Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and 2013 Nobel laureate in economic sciences. Active management run counter to diversification, key in the current climate, he says.
Oil prices set to decline; distortions driving volatility
Europe is in the grip of historically high energy prices today, but markets are pricing in a lower risk premium ahead and the oil price is set to come off, predicted Edward Morse, global head of commodities research at Citigroup.
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