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PMT talks infra equity and how to balance stock concentration risk
Scenario testing has put inflation risk front and centre at PMT, the Netherlands’ third largest pension fund, and it's driving the investor to take stock of the inflation protection it gets from infrastructure. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, chief investment officer Hartwig Liersch unpacks the risk, as well as another initiative where it's balancing concentration risk in the equity allocation without hurting returns.
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The subtle complexity of best-practice pension management
Identifying best practice in pension management is not a straightforward task. As much as asset allocators may want there to be a definitive answer, differences in size, mandate and resources between different pension funds means an investment approach that works for one may not work for others.
Financial services risks redundancy if leaders don’t step up on AI
The financial services industry is well positioned to benefit from the “exponential upside” resulting from the use of AI, but its senior leaders are not bold enough in embracing and using AI, according to speakers at the Amundi World Investment Forum.
Why simplicity matters in total portfolio approach
The key to implementing a successful total portfolio approach is not about creating complexities, but rather maintaining simplicity within the shared lexicon of an investment team, said two of the approach's most well-known adopters.
Reflections on Fiduciary Investors Symposium, Toronto
The Fiduciary Investors Symposium was held in May in Toronto. Conexus Institute executive director David Bell shares his reflections through the lens of a researcher focused on Australia’s superannuation system and a former pension fund CIO, and someone with a strong academic background in all things investment and pension related.
Build a playground, but let your investment team play on the slide
Innovation comes from collaboration, not from building silos, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard. Leading academic Redouane Elkamhi told the symposium the boards of pension funds should create structures that allow investment teams to actually do what they are asked to do.
Enhanced tech capabilities makes reinforcement learning viable
What was once too intense to be utilised by computing processes, reinforcement learning has become a viable tool for asset owners. John Hull, Maple Financial chair in derivatives and risk management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium this now outperforms simpler modelling approaches.
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