Editorial
Finance ‘not just about making money’
Nobel Laureate, Professor Robert Shiller, will speak at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Yale School of Management from October 23-25.
Amanda WhiteAugust 5, 2016
Opinion
PFZW reformulates investment principles
PFZW, the €150 billion ($205 billion) Dutch pension fund for the health care industry, has created a new investment framework which is the result of an 18-month soul-searching journey under a project called “The White Sheet of Paper”. The framework will translate into policy and implementation steps starting from 2015. Jaap van Dam, PGGM´s chief […]
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Risk modelling
requires review
Advocating the use of financial models a six-year-old could understand and warning that the dogmatic belief in overly complex and unrealistic models contributed to the financial crisis were some of the challenging views put to the attendees of the recent CFA Institute’s annual conference. Throwing down the gauntlet was GMO asset-allocation team member James Montier, […]
SAM RILEYMay 16, 2012
Research
Call for action on Euro crisis
A group of prominent academics from across the globe have called on governments to substantially reform the world’s banking system and have laid out a plan for dealing with the Euro crisis.
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Asset managers raise alarm
Popular movements seem more likely to emanate from camped-out protesters than boardrooms, but a new organisation headed by Hermes Fund Managers acting chief executive officer Saker Nusseibeh has the ambitious aim of radically reforming the investment industry.
SAM RILEYDecember 7, 2011
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Funds “overreacting” to market volatility: MSCI
A global survey of asset owners shows they are increasingly being short-term in their focus and may be overreacting to the current market volatility, says Frank Nielsen, co-head of MSCI’s global applied research group.
SAM RILEYOctober 5, 2011