I chat with Paul on derivative pricing, the application of mathematics within financial services and the implications for society due to AI.
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Now is not the time to reduce risk, argues Henrik Olejasz Larsen, chief investment officer of Sampension, Denmark’s $50 billion pension fund for public and private sector employees. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, he says corporate profits have not deteriorated, and although the market has been tested from multiple directions, the underlying optimism driving equities is strong enough to overrule the negative impact of geopolitical risk.
Many of the certainties investors have taken for granted over the past several decades appear to be fading. In its World View research, Canada's IMCO reflects on the years ahead
The “phase out” or “phase down” of coal use leads us down two different paths with the Thinkin Ahead’s Tim Hodgson arguing that phase out is a choice to save the planet, while phase down is an attempt to save our unsustainable way of life.
For pension funds with a large roster of external managers, balancing the integration of top-down strategy with managers’ bottom-up implementation is one of the most challenging tasks says Mark Walker, CIO of Coal Pension. The key is to ensure external managers truly understand the strategic goals for the allocation.
Divestment doesn't work, scope 3 reporting will tie companies in regulatory knots and ESG integration threatens pension funds long term returns and their ability to finance the transition. Utah Retirement Systems' John Skjervem says the only way to solve the climate emergency is to keep investing in fossil fuels.
Hit by last year's unusual correlation between equities and bonds, and in a bid to avoid higher long-term inflation, Switzerland's €45.6 billion Publica kick-starts a new strategic asset allocation that will reduce the bond allocation and result in a search for new managers.
Since joining $233.5 billion New York City Retirement Systems (NYCRS) six months ago, CIO and Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management Steven Meier has spent the bulk of his time getting under the hood of the private markets allocation, engaging with business partners and meeting some of the best minds in the industry to discuss the
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