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Technology

How technology plays a central role in CPP’s evolving strategy

Top1000funds.com double clicks on CPP Investments' technology strategy exploring a new user-centric focus on modular design so technology can evolve alongside investments; how in the not too distant future teams will include “non human” intelligence; and how to answer the question of value added from technology deployment.

Amanda WhiteSeptember 9, 2024

Sustainability Harvard - September 2022

ESG now needs to prove its worth, argues ESG champion and historian

Sustainable investment needs to be defended from external attack as questions are raised about how much change it is actually achieving argues David Wood, director of the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Ben HurleyOctober 25, 2022

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark

Benchmark ranks pension funds on disclosure transparency

The Global Pension Transparency Benchmark, a collaboration between conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com and Toronto-based CEM Benchmarking, has revealed the need for serious improvement in pension transparency across the globe. Check out how funds ranked across 15 different countries on transparency of governance, performance, cost and responsible investing.

Amanda WhiteAugust 26, 2021

Risk

Size matters: diversity across factors

The size factor has recently come under attack from smart beta providers because its performance has lagged behind other factors. A common recommendation is to remove size from the factor menu, to give more weight to factors with better performance. But due to its low correlation with other factors, size offers substantial diversification benefits.

Mikheil Esakia, Felix Goltz, Ben Luyten and Marcel SibbeJuly 17, 2019

Fees

Price war hitting active fees, too

Fee compression is here to stay. Only the few active managers that have met their benchmarks over the past few years have been immune. But make no mistake, asset owners will be reviewing all strategies for their value and fee models will continue to evolve.

Amin RajanNovember 26, 2018

Asset Classes

NZ Super looks to factors, carbon

The NZ$33 billion NZ Super is looking to increase its exposure to equity factors and implement the next phase of its climate strategy, which includes decarbonising existing factor mandates.

Amanda WhiteAugust 2, 2018