FIS Oxford 2024
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FIS Oxford 2024
Room for fee innovation as traditional models come under pressure
Asset owners and managers may not always agree on fees, but one thing both parties are thinking a lot more about these days is creating innovative structures which – if done right – could provide rewards for the former and value for the latter.
Darcy SongNovember 26, 2024
Featured Story
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.
Amanda WhiteOctober 30, 2024
Investor Profile
Behind AustralianSuper’s global expansion
London-based AustralianSuper deputy CIO Damian Moloney oversees the global expansion plans of Australia’s largest superannuation fund. While a global presence has clear benefits for the fund and its members, Moloney’s advice to others contemplating the same is to plan extensively and build early.
Amanda WhiteOctober 22, 2024
Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing
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.
Amanda WhiteOctober 16, 2024
Featured Story
CFA’s tools for tackling net zero provoke investing infrastructure re-think
Foundational research by CFA Institute aims to prompt the best minds in the asset management and asset owner communities to consider how to better consider climate risk. Institute chief executive Marg Franklin says governance, organisational design and systems thinking will be core elements of how the industry evolves its thinking and
Amanda WhiteSeptember 25, 2024
Technology
How technology plays a central role in CPP’s evolving strategy
Top1000funds.com double clicks on CPP Investments' technology strategy exploring a new user-centric focus on modular design so technology can evolve alongside investments; how in the not too distant future teams will include “non human” intelligence; and how to answer the question of value added from technology deployment.
Amanda WhiteSeptember 9, 2024
Investor Profile
Stock / bond correlations top of mind for Wisconsin
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board is incorporating top-down macro analysis of the drivers of stock-bond correlations into its risk management, including to assess the potential of a secular shift in the stock-bond correlation.
Amanda WhiteMay 24, 2024