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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.

Amanda WhiteOctober 30, 2024

Investor Profile

Behind AustralianSuper’s global expansion

Amanda WhiteOctober 22, 2024

Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing

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

Amanda WhiteOctober 16, 2024

FIS Stanford 2024

The ‘most momentous’ in living memory: The 2024 US presidential election

Aleks VickovichOctober 4, 2024

FIS Stanford 2024

‘Built different builds different’: Embracing neurodiversity in investment

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

FIS Stanford 2024

Winds of change blowing through private credit markets

The influx of capital and interest into the private credit market has spawned new managers and offerings, but asset owners are increasingly alert to the fact that not every one of them is built equal, and even tiny losses during the credit cycle can eat significantly into long-term returns.

Darcy SongSeptember 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

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