Risk Is a Cake: CIOs Need to Know Which Layer Matters Most
To the consternation and delight of risk teams everywhere, there is no one-size-fits-all measure, writes a senior strategist from Capital Group.
Opinion
Beyond Default Risk: What an Insurance Mindset Can Teach Institutional Investors About Private Credit
A head of insurance client solutions stresses why long-term investors need to distinguish between measurable risks and the broader uncertainty inherent in investing.
Private Markets Don’t Need More Data; They Need Data That Connect
Standardized information to compare fund and manager performance across cohorts and to reconcile exposure, risk and valuation across portfolio holdings, writes a Bloomberg executive.
AI’s Build-Out Has a Deliverability Problem
An investment firm partner explains why allocators’ success depends on understanding the risks inherent in data center and power projects, including the needs of the communities where they are built.
The Passive Megafire: When Equity Market Feedback Becomes Fuel for Correlated Risk
A ClearBridge Investments portfolio manager discusses how changes in feedback, due to ever-increasing passive investing, are a growing risk to functioning capital markets.
Will AI’s Next Productivity Revolution Begin in the Fields?
A First Eagle Investments fund manager explores how artificial intelligence tools will benefit businesses, like farming, using it to solve practical operating problems.
A Terminal Diagnosis
Many institutional portfolios are built on assumptions that may not survive the decade. Those planning ahead are building immunity.
Why the Best AI Investors Are Also Builders
Technology operatives who co-founded a VC firm explain how artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the venture capital model.
Using the Power of a Pension Surplus to Enhance Retirement Security
Overfunded defined benefit plans are now a hallmark of corporate America, and sponsors are exploring new, strategic uses of pension surpluses to extend employee benefits.
Why We Co-Filed: Shareholder Engagement as Fiduciary Imperative in Age of Surveillance Risk
Two foundation leaders urge peers to engage with the companies in which they invest to better align investment strategies with missions and long-term priorities.
Why AI Won’t Replace the CIO, But Will Redesign the Investment Office
The most important question is not whether an organization should experiment with AI, but whether the institution is prepared to govern what comes with it, writes a managing director from Michael Oak Advisors.
A Valuable Diversifier in an Era of Uncertainty and Concentration
The latent opportunities of undervalued Japanese firms offer defense against a down cycle for US technology, writes Amova Asset Management’s chief global strategist.
SEC’s New Forced Arbitration Policy Puts Everyday Investors at Risk
Wider adoption of forced arbitration would erode trust in the capital markets, as well as being harmful to individual investors, writes a corporate governance advocate
How to Responsibly Address AI in Your Portfolio
The Intentional Endowments Network reviews what endowments and foundations need to know about artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence: 2 Sides of the Same Allocation Coin
The increased agility available in public markets might provide more value than the higher-return expectations in private markets.