Just hours before the US Federal Reserve cut interest rate, Bridgewater portfolio strategist Alex Smith cautioned the Top1000Funds Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Stanford University that any specific rate call doesn’t really matter. Instead, he illustrated a bigger picture view for the road ahead and what this means to investors.
The jewel in the crown of the Church Commissioners’ portfolio, the London-based asset manager for the historic assets of the Church of England, is its allocation to real assets, which contributes to returns used to support the work and specific needs of the church, alongside clergy pensions.
Brightwell, asset manager for the BT Pension Scheme, explains why it manages its liability-driven investment strategy in-house but has turned to external managers in its cash flow-driven strategy.
Swedish buffer fund AP4 has begun integrating Scope 3 into its systematic equity allocation, convinced a company’s up and downstream emissions data signposts the green winners of the future.
Thijs Knaap, chief economist at APG, shares his observations of the AI boom and one of Wall Street’s most closely watched companies.
[vc_column] Overview Quantifying the impact of climate change on physical assets and business models presents a challenge for all investment professionals. Scenario analysis and carbon pricing are central to understanding plausible future outcomes. [vc_column_text css=””]Images of island nations disappearing under the waves might come to mind, while worsening heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods are already … Read more
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