Prof Rob Hyndman discusses the interesting elements of his work as editor of the Internal Journal of Forecasting, his work on forecasting COVID for the Australian government, time-series and causality.
Prof Rob Hyndman: Forecasting COVID, time-series, and why causality doesnt matter as much as you think.
The twin forces rewriting the rules of investing
Portfolios built for the old world will be severely tested as emerging forces rewrite the rules of investing. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that geopolitical and macroeconomic upheaval, together with the disruption wrought by AI, should force asset owners to rethink the structure and composition of portfolios.
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Collective investments for pension saving: lessons from Singapore’s CPF scheme
New research by the Pension Research Council at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, examines whether workers seeking higher returns can expect to do better than the CPF-managed default, by moving their money into professionally-managed unit trusts. The evidence is mixed. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Passive tilt for Massachusetts state fund
The $42 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management (PRIM) will move half of its developed non-US equity portfolio and 25 per cent of its emerging market equity portfolio into passive strategies and has begun a search for a single manager for each asset class with a commencement date of May. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2
Ontario Teachers’ buys UK schools from private equity
The private capital arm of the $87.4 billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has acquired a UK special education and fostering services provider believed to be valued at about £200 million ($326 million). mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Investing in climate change 2010
In this white paper by DB Climate Change Advisors, led by global head of climate change investment research Mark Fulton, the drivers of climate change for 2010 are examined in the context of strategic asset allocation. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Make companies pay for engagement
Businesses should be forced to pay a levy to support robust shareholder engagement, says Peter Butler, chief executive of Governance for Owners (GO), a UK shareholder rights partnership, because effective stewardship will only become a fixture of the institutional investment industry when it carries a big price tag. He spoke with Simon Mumme. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored
Efficient indices outperform cap-weighted
A new series of efficient indices, launched by FTSE and the EDHEC-Risk Institute, which aims to capture equity market returns with an improved risk/reward efficiency, outperform their market-cap weighted counterparts over five years in every region except Asia Pacific ex-Japan. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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