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The Austin advantage: Texas Teachers talks optimism, innovation and growth
Jase Auby, TRS's celebrated CIO, explains why TPA doesn't fit with its culture; why community push back on data centres could turn out to be an investor advantage, and argues the case for continuing to invest in fossil fuels. Top1000funds.com sat down with the CIO in his Austin office for an all-encompassing conversation.
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Private market investors ponder transition investment
Investors putting capital to work in private market transition assets face unknowns around government policy, but the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Oxford has heard that private credit also fits well with the long term nature of transition investments and brings valuable relationships with investee companies.
Why investing in biodiversity champions pays
Delegates at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium, Oxford University heard how an allocation to biodiversity champions, without any tech exposure, only slightly trails the MSCI World in a reflection of how it is possible for investors to make money in biodiversity solutions.
Biodiversity: Regeneration set to become big investment theme in future
Regeneration will become a key investment theme in the future according to multiple biodiversity themes, according to Gabriel Micheli, senior investment manager, thematic equities, Pictet Asset Management.
Investors balance net zero with fiduciary duty and climate scepticism
A panel session at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Oxford discusses how the absence of policy is making net zero investment more challenging. Asset owners have to work hard to explain to beneficiaries why net zero targets give a better risk adjusted return.
Geopolitics: US retrenches to focus on one potential war
Leading global affairs scholar Stephen Kotkin explains why the US is retreating from its role as global policeman with profound implications for the world and warned that the rising number of regional conflicts bears comparisons with the 1930s. “It’s only after it happens that it becomes obvious,” he said.
‘Opportunity to lose a lot of money’ in net zero investments
Allocating capital to net zero opportunities doesn’t mean investors are prepared to do charity. In a universe of potential transition solutions, Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics Cameron Hepburn at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford said investors should look at them with some filters.
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