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Investment committee meetings, a governance cornerstone at every asset owner organisation, run the risk of amplifying group biases and social dynamics, and can push the IC towards recommending more extreme investment positions collectively than the average of their individual views. Bernhard Scherer, head of portfolio implementation at ADIA, unpacks the thesis in a new paper.
Local pension plans have warmly greeted the second phase of pension reform in Ontario, Canada, through a bill which contains provisions such as restrictions on benefit improvements where amendments will compromise a plan’s funded position. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Institutional investors are again in a situation where virtually any combination of publicly traded investments will not meet their return goals, according to director of research at Wurts and Associates, Eric Petroff. So what should they do now?mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
A new VisionFocus report by State Street leverages new research by State Street Global Advisors to examine the growing impact of environmental, social and governance concerns on the investment decisions of institutional investors.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
France’s penchant for social demonstration targeted pension reform this week, with more than one million people striking over proposals to increase the retirement age from 60 to 62. The scenes could act as a warning to other countries with similar pension shortfalls.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
The largest 20 funds managers in the world lifted their combined market share last year as the industry recovered from two years of funds under management outflows.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Edward Qian, CIO of PanAgora Asset Management, coined the term “risk parity”, but he says there are misconceptions about how the approach uses leverage which, if used incorrectly, undermines its essence – risk diversification.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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