At the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment conference Cape Town on October 1, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation Sharan Burrow delivered a speech entitled Push the Reset Button – a Line Between Speculation and Investment. She discussed the stability of the global economy, the necessity for investors to shift to long-term thinking and the crucial role of pension funds in truly sustainable investment. At the heart of Burrows’ speech is the centrality of workers’ capital – the money that funds the industry that feeds us – and the respect that deserves.
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Conservative overweighting hinders world’s largest investor
An overweight allocation to domestic bonds has not helped the world’s largest investor in the June quarter, with a massive $42 billion shaved off the assets of the ¥116,802 billion ($1.37 trillion), Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan (GPIF).mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Deflation: the taboo which needs to be examined
The funds management industry is famous for its navel-gazing. After a crisis, you can just imagine how much of it goes on. But, perhaps, that self-examination may provide more rewards if it starts to actually look at industry taboos rather than accepted practices.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
European pension funds have blinkered view of risk
The liability-hedging portfolio of European pension funds is imprecisely modelled at nearly half of the pension funds as measured in a EDHEC-Risk Institute survey.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Financial health reports essential says Mercer
After the damage of the global financial crisis, funds should be submitting themselves for voluntary financial health checks to diagnose vulnerabilities and pinpoint risks, asset consulting firm Mercer says. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Liquidity as an investment style
This paper by Yale School of Management Professors, Roger Ibbotson and Zhiwu Chen, shows that liquidity, as measured by stock turnover or trading volume, is an economically significant and distinct investment style, and introduces and examines the performance of several portfolio strategies.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Dodd-Frank Act will stand or fall on right people
At a Yale-hosted roundtable on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, professor of economics, Robert Shiller, said the success of the Act, and the agencies created to study aspects of the market, will depend on appointing the right people, who should be willing to take advice from his fellow economists. Click here to read more.mrec4inarticleinline
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