In this episode, Matt Smith, director of retail content, Conexus Financial, chats with Matt Raddy, chief executive of Allianz Retire +, about annuities, video conferencing and breaking the old rules around investment ideas.
CPP, NBIM CEOs swap notes on leading through teams, not bureaucracy
In a high-level exchange between two of the world's largest and most sophisticated asset owners, CPP Investments’ chief executive John Graham shared a leadership lesson with Norges Bank Investment Management chief executive Nicolai Tangen: having an aligned senior team is one of the most critical things a leader can build. The two funds, which are consistently leaders in transparency, also exchanged playbooks on managing bureaucracy at large organisations.
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Avoid looking at Fed interest rate cut as an economic saviour
Just hours before the US Federal Reserve cut interest rate, Bridgewater portfolio strategist Alex Smith cautioned the Top1000Funds Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Stanford University that any specific rate call doesn’t really matter. Instead, he illustrated a bigger picture view for the road ahead and what this means to investors.
Church Commissioners: Managing historic real assets for the future
The jewel in the crown of the Church Commissioners’ portfolio, the London-based asset manager for the historic assets of the Church of England, is its allocation to real assets, which contributes to returns used to support the work and specific needs of the church, alongside clergy pensions.
How Brightwell combines external credit managers and in-house LDI
Brightwell, asset manager for the BT Pension Scheme, explains why it manages its liability-driven investment strategy in-house but has turned to external managers in its cash flow-driven strategy.
Why AP4 has decided to integrate Scope 3 emissions across equities
Swedish buffer fund AP4 has begun integrating Scope 3 into its systematic equity allocation, convinced a company's up and downstream emissions data signposts the green winners of the future.
APG: The AI boom might have peaked
Thijs Knaap, chief economist at APG, shares his observations of the AI boom and one of Wall Street’s most closely watched companies.
How investors are assessing the future cost of climate change risk
[vc_column] Overview Quantifying the impact of climate change on physical assets and business models presents a challenge for all investment professionals. Scenario analysis and carbon pricing are central to understanding plausible future outcomes.[vc_column_text css=””]Images of island nations disappearing under the waves might come to mind, while worsening heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods are already evident.
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