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FIS Oxford 2024

Leveraging geographic diversification in a multipolar world 

The past 20 years have seen large pools of capital become larger, more global and diversified across asset classes. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard how Bridgewater Associates is allocating capital and resources to meet this shifting paradigm and why investors can’t try to bet on certain geographic regions overperforming.
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CFA Institute: Galvanizing the industry for change

In a wide-ranging discussion at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Oxford, CFA Institute chief executive Margaret Franklin, and global head of content at WTW Roger Urwin, examined some of the challenges the investment industry faces and the need for evolution.
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UK unleashes its plans for mega funds

The UK government has announced plans to speed up LGPS pooling, forcing local authority pension funds to pool their assets and delegate investment strategy to larger asset pools. The government also wants DC schemes to merge. Top1000funds.com spoke to industry executives about the proposals.
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Low risk start for Ireland’s new sovereign funds, but more to come

Long-term strategies for Ireland’s new SWFs, expected to grow to €100 billion by 2035, will be designed and allocated in the next nine months including the appointment of an investment committee and custodian. For now it will invest in low-risk allocations to high credit quality Euro-area sovereign and quasi-sovereign bonds.
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The complexity, limitation, evolution and liberation of climate benchmarks

Benchmarks are highlighted in the recent CFA Institute paper as among the historical norms that make investing in climate challenging. MSCI Institute’s Linda-Eling Lee talks about the complexities and evolution of climate benchmarks including the use of balanced scorecard-toolkits that are improving the technology.
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The Asset Owner Directory is an interactive tool to give readers an insight into the world of global asset owners. It includes key information for the largest asset owners around the world such as key personnel, asset allocation and performance.

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UTIMCO telegraphs opportunities in small caps ahead

Small caps have lagged returns in the S&P500 and stand to benefit most from rate cuts because of floating rate debt. It's why UTIMCO's chief Rich Hall forecasts investors opportunities ahead.

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CFA’s guide to the whole framework on net-zero

Climate risk has certain features that stretch the imaginations and toolkits of investors, meaning a new framework that includes systems thinking is necessary to branch out from the narrow measurement and management of risk predicated on modern portfolio theory, says Roger Urwin.
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Fiduciary Investors Symposium

The Fiduciary Investors Symposium brings global investors together to examine best-practice strategy and implementation.

The event enables institutional investors to engage with industry thought leaders in academia and practice, in a collegiate environment that promotes shared discussion.

 

March 18-20, 2025 | National University of Singapore

Fiduciary Investors Symposium

The Fiduciary Investors Symposium brings global investors together to examine best-practice strategy and implementation.

The event enables institutional investors to engage with industry thought leaders in academia and practice, in a collegiate environment that promotes shared discussion.

 

May 19-21, 2025 | Harvard University, USA
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Piecing together the impact investing puzzle

Ben Thornley, co-founder at Tideline, looks at how value creation practices bring a manager’s impact credentials into sharper focus, the strong positive correlation between impact and financial performance, and the role of allocators in incentivizing and enabling managers to deliver impact value.
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Why Asia is the future

In the midst of the great power rivalry between the US and China, “we need to carve out a future that works well for all of us” says National University of Singapore’s Danny Quah, in a talk examining the global economy and the role of Asia. Listen here.

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Risk management in an age of geopolitical uncertainty: Davos 2024 insights

Geopolitical risk was a key theme at Davos 2024 says FCLTGlobal’s Sarah Keohane Williamson who hosted an institutional investor CEO roundtable at the World Economic Forum. She says investors need to address geopolitical uncertainty in their strategies with the ability to distinguish signal from noise more critical than ever before.
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Behind Future Fund’s $70bn inflation-related portfolio shift

In the past two years, the Future Fund has made around $70 billion worth of changes in the portfolio that can be traced back to stubbornly high inflation. Its director of research and insights, Craig Thorburn, outlined how asset allocation around currencies, alternatives and bonds are all looking different.
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Finland’s VER reflects on how to enliven European venture capital

Statistics show that Europe outperforms the United States when it comes to 10-year venture capital returns, but European investors struggle to access the market. Finnish State Fund VER's CEO Timo Löyttyniemi suggests how the market could develop.