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Chief Investment Officer is pleased to present our latest Thought Leadership Round-Up newsletter featuring articles, white papers, webcasts and videos from thought leaders in the industry.
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| Featured Thought Leadership |
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 | | Partial Risk Transfers: Less Than Meets the Eye | Actuarial firms, bankers and insurance companies have been urging U.S. defined benefit plan sponsors to transfer their liabilities to a third party. Transferring the total liability has proven too onerous for most plan sponsors, so these institutions have been pitching partial risk transfers (PRT) instead. However, the touted long-term cost savings and pension risk reduction may turn out to be underwhelming, if not elusive.
| | Sponsored by PIMCO |
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 | | Taming Data: How CIOs Can Leverage Technology to Improve Their Operations | CIOs today have access to unprecedented volumes of data that can help in exploring and implementing investment ideas, vetting and monitoring investment managers and overseeing portfolios. But many lack the systems they need to take maximum advantage of the data available to them—or the insights that data could deliver.
| | Sponsored by Backstop Solutions |
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 | | Actis Publishes Open Source Impact Measurement Framework | In a drive to systematically measure the social and environmental impact of investments, Actis has published a white paper that for the first time uses real examples to show numerical comparisons across diverse sectors and geographies.
| | Sponsored by Actis |
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 | | Meeting CIO challenges in setting strategy and managing risk | A complex and dynamic investment landscape has shifted the role of CIO – performance expectations are high, and the necessary resources aren’t always readily available to focus on building their investment strategy. Long-term capital market assumptions based on solid theory and investment practitioner expertise serve an important role in building an outcome-oriented multi-asset portfolio to meet specific investment goals. Join this webcast for exclusive insights regarding what CIOs identify as their most pressing needs, the outcomes they want, and the collaborative solutions they are arriving at with their asset manager partners to meet their goals.
| | Sponsored by Invesco |
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| | Decision-Making in the Age of Imperfect Data | Data comes in various formats, with various lag times, at various levels of depth. Sometimes, it sits outside of your four walls. Sometimes, it sits inside your four walls, but is siloed. And all the time, there’s just too much of it. We’ll be talking through the issues that imperfect data causes, and how the panel of institutional investors is addressing those issues, including their strategies for consolidating this data and using it to drive actionable insights into their portfolios.
| | Sponsored by Backstop Solutions |
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