Asset Allocation

January 16, 2020

Defense Stocks Are Killing It, but for How Long?

Amid swelling Pentagon spending under Donald Trump, they look good. But under President Bernie Sanders?

January 16, 2020

CalPERS Outlines Key Economic Risks for Next Decade

Declining interest rates, increasing profit margins less likely to repeat, and high valuations across domestic markets topped the list.

January 15, 2020

BlackRock Makes Sustainability the Focus of its Investment Strategy

CEO Larry Fink says investment risk and climate risk are one and the same.

January 15, 2020

Alaska’s Alternative Investing Ace Brings Out-of-Box Thinking to New Post

Marcus Frampton, winner of CIO's Innovation Award for sovereign wealth funds, has made a big mark since he landed the top job in 2018.

January 14, 2020

Risk Manager of 2019/2020: The CIO Who Beat Q4 of 2018

How Vincent Morin of Air Canada, CIO's Innovation Award winner for Risk Management, used the 4 P's to keep his fund in the surplus.

January 13, 2020

Institutional Investors Call for Barclays to End Fossil Fuel Financing

Managers of more than $170 billion say bank lags behind peers in climate action.

January 10, 2020

CalSTRS Rejects Fossil Fuel Divestment

A report details CalSTRS policy of engaging fossil fuel companies rather than dumping their stock, which it sees as a last resort and potentially harmful to the portfolio.

January 9, 2020

NYC and London Mayors Urge Global Cities to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Mayors Bill DeBlasio and Sadiq Khan implore that ‘time is running out’ on climate change; provide a toolkit for divestment.

January 8, 2020

Money from Fired CalPERS Equity Managers May End Up in Direct Lending

CalPERS has never invested in direct lending, but CIO Ben Meng sees the strategy as a way to diversity the portfolio away from reliance on equities.