Prashant Mehra, Author at Top1000funds.com

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

FIS Stanford 2024

Changing geopolitical risks are getting harder to manage – but here’s how

The changing nature of geopolitical risks has made them harder to manage, even though the adversaries to an American-led world order have remained nearly the same over the decades. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard a key difference is that everything that happens everywhere is now interconnected.

Prashant MehraSeptember 30, 2024

FIS Stanford 2024

Macro risks, opportunities prompt rethink of portfolios

Investment heads at large global funds are cutting down on risk, making higher allocations to equities and shifting focus to absolute returns as they reorganise portfolios to future-proof against global macro risks on the horizon, and to take advantage of potential opportunities, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard.

Prashant MehraSeptember 30, 2024

FIS Stanford 2024

Nobel laureate advises a different focus on risk to enhance returns

Nobel Prize-winning economist Myron Scholes advises investors to think differently about risk to improve the way it is managed, to help boost returns. He told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium the focus of asset owners should shift from thinking of risk as a constant to considering how risks are changing.

Prashant MehraSeptember 30, 2024

FIS Stanford 2024

Flawed Fed encouraging excessive risk taking

An increasing willingness of regulators to bail out investors at times of crises is reducing the competitive environment in which banks and financial institutions operate, the Fiduciary investors Symposium at Stanford University has heard. It is also encouraging more risky behaviour, and creating a fragile system in the longer run.

Prashant MehraSeptember 30, 2024

FIS Stanford 2024

Focus on engagement to drive faltering climate transition

As the global fight against climate change shows signs of slowing down, some large asset owners are taking a more pragmatic approach to investment returns from the transition by focusing on more targeted engagement in order to drive more lasting impact, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard.

Prashant MehraSeptember 25, 2024