I speak to Matt about his wonderful collection of old (retro?) computers but also all about the challenges of defining an ethical framework for algorithms, and what we can do to understand this tricky area.
Impact investing’s case for scale
Impact investing has come a long way in the past two decades, going from a niche strategy to a $1.5 trillion industry, but there are still challenges for it to reach institutional scale due to the lack of products and insufficient evidence of outperformance in some parts of the market.
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Environmental engagement through benchmarking
Engaging real estate fund managers on their carbon footprint will be more easily implemented following the creation of a Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, the result of collaborative work by a group of 11 of the world’s largest pension asset managers and Maastricht University.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
NEST-eggs incubated ethically through sharia mandate
The UK’s National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has awarded F&C Asset Management and HSBC Global Asset Management the management of its ethical and sharia mandates.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
THE EVOLVING ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
Technology has long been an essential behind-the-scenes partner in the financial services industry, providing theinnovative incremental advances necessary for the industry to upgrade and expand its services. Improvements in storage capacity and processing speed, for example, have had a profound impact on data management and transactional capabilities, with accompanying reductions in cost. Yet despite these
Most managers set to look outside the US
The managers most in demand by US investors are those with compelling presences in global and emerging markets’ equities, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, private equity and real assets.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Long-term risks and the human factor for fiduciaries
While risk for investment portfolios has been well-studied in the light of the financial crisis – if insufficiently before – the notion of long-term risk is still underexplored, according to Roger Urwin.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Restrict rebalancing to US stocks and bonds: Morgan Stanley
A more efficient way to rebalance highly diversified multi-asset portfolios – which contain illiquid assets – could be to restrict the rebalancing to exchanges between US stocks and US bonds only, according to new analysis by Morgan Stanley.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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