Nick Wade: Driving from Beijing to Paris and stories in risk modelling

I chat with Nick, Director of Asia Pacific Marketing at Northfield Information Services, about the bubbles we live in socially, philosophically and professionally. Risk modelling has evolved to mirror active management and yet entails residual dogma and structural flaws in delivery and execution. In this fascinating conversation we unpack where AI will take financial services, the importance of time horizons and the better questions asset owners need to ask themselves in order to understand their portfolios.

Nothing on this podcast is to be considered investment advice or a recommendation. No investment decision or activity should be undertaken without first seeking qualified and professional advice.

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CalPERS’ public and private equity reset shapes performance

CalPERS’ public and private equity reset shapes performance

CalPERS is continuing to reap the benefits of a sweeping overhaul of its public and private equity programs, with the two asset classes, which are the biggest components in the portfolio, powering a 14.8 per cent return for the $637 billion fund in the last reporting period.

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China experts split on the nation’s financial policymaking capability 

The strength of China’s national leadership remains a central topic for avid China watchers around the world. As the nation heads into a structural reshuffle of its economy, investors, researchers and political scientists have different views on Chinese policymakers’ ability to work with the financial market from this point on.

Asian investors reveal home bias challenges

For investors based in Asia, a home bias can throw up some challenges that affect investors homed in other regions much less. Three Asia-based investors - Temasek, Brunei Investment Agency and Khazanah - outlined to the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore last week how they face into those challenges.

Investors urged to approach green asset certification in Asia with caution

National University of Singapore’s leading sustainable finance researcher Sumit Agarwal has urged global investors to maintain a critical mindset when approaching an asset class’s green certification, saying that buying into sustainability claims blindly can undermine both the investment’s returns and their societal goals.

Looking backwards is a poor way to assess Asia’s future

The specific drivers of growth of Asian economies means a traditional view of asset allocation is not necessarily the best way to approach investing in the region, the 2024 Top100funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore has heard.

Success in Asia will be by choice, not by chance

Asia is an attractive region for investment by institutional asset owners, but economic prosperity and wealth won't be created by chance. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard that it will be the result of a series of careful, deliberate policy choices.

Recasting emissions abatement as expensive rather than hard 

When it comes to figuring out how a company will get to net zero and how their transition will be financed, more investors are making a distinction between emissions that are hard to abate, and emissions that are expensive to abate.

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