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Drivers of the future: Asia rises but demographics and debt impact west
Speaking at FIS Oxford Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation and development, senior fellow at the Oxford Martin School, professorial fellow at the Balliol College, University of Oxford sketched an emerging world characterised by a rising Asia and ascending west.
Sarah RundellNovember 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
FIS Stanford 2024
The ‘most momentous’ in living memory: The 2024 US presidential election
Douglas Rivers, chief scientist at pollster YouGov, said data coming out of the current US presidential election confirms significant cultural and demographic shifts that are reshaping the political map. Rivers told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium that the once-popular “demographics is destiny” mantra predicting permanent centre-left majorities has lost meaning in the Trump era.
Aleks VickovichOctober 4, 2024
FIS Stanford 2024
‘Built different builds different’: Embracing neurodiversity in investment
Embracing neurodiversity might not just be the key to unlocking collaboration, creativity and productivity in investment teams, it could also be the key to better returns, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard.
Simon HoyleOctober 3, 2024
FIS Stanford 2024
How long-term investors should think about stock-bond correlations
Asset owners that are long-term investors should be wary of the conventional model of assessing the stock-bond correlation that is based on several “implicit assumptions”, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard. Instead, the question investors should be asking is: are bonds a hedge or a risk?
Darcy SongSeptember 30, 2024
FIS Stanford 2024
AI already driving ‘biggest transformation in the economy we’ve ever seen’
The economic impact of AI can be better measured if every job is broken down into its component tasks, and the impact on each of those tasks is valued. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that on this basis, we’re seeing the biggest economic transformation ever.
Simon HoyleSeptember 30, 2024
FIS Stanford 2024
Long-duration storage, digitisation key to cracking the energy transition
Packing more energy into smaller batteries is one crucial technological development to help achieving the energy transition within the necessary timeframes, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard, and there are enormous economic opportunities ahead as industry races to unlock solutions.
Prashant MehraSeptember 30, 2024
