Cybersecurity
Investors and institutional allocators are looking for safety solutions as the danger posed by cyber attacks grows.
Special Coverage
How Investors, Public Companies View SEC’s Cybersecurity Disclosure Requirements
Disclosure requirements can be a hassle for companies, but investors seek to understand material risks.
Asset Allocation
Cybersecurity M&A Balloons as Breach Danger Builds
Stealing data to sell, extract ransom or just for mischief is exacting a bigger toll.
Risk
Keeping Endowments Safe From Hackers
Cyberattacks on universities have soared, so university endowments are trying to catch up with other industries to ensure their portfolios are safe.
Past Special Coverage
New Globalization
As the world’s power centers shift, tariffs and some geopolitical tensions rise and supply chains shorten, institutional investors face opportunities for and obstacles to portfolio growth.
How Tariffs, Trade Affect Manufacturing Investment
While protectionism appears popular in both political camps, its impact on US businesses and institutional investors is best viewed through a wide lens.
Pensions
Pressure Mounts on Public Pension Funds to Divest Chinese Investments
State and federal legislation aims to prohibit public funds from investing in the country.
Corporate Moves
Higher Military Outlays Are Boosting Defense Stocks—With More Upside Ahead, Say Strategists
In the US, members of both parties back a boost in Pentagon spending. The consensus is similar for military-related outlays in Japan and Europe.
Risk
Immigration Critics Overlook the Good It Does, per State Street
The worker influx has led to moderate wage growth and thus held down inflation, according to the firm’s Arone.
Food and Agriculture
Investors are increasingly focused on the role of nature in the economy, no where more than when allocating to products and companies that supply food and nutrition to the world.
Asset Allocation
Why the Largest Allocators Are Focusing on Agriculture
Agriculture can yield a harvest of returns for patient, long-term investors.
Asset Allocation
Investors Start to Welcome Non-Animal Protein
Plant-based sources move onto the table to supplant beef and its ilk.
Asset Allocation
The Alpha Opportunities of Declining Biodiversity
How institutional investors are starting to navigate the challenges of natural capital investments.
Med Tech and the Fight Against Cancer
How institutional investors can participate in the fight against cancer.
What Is It Going to Take to Get to the End of Cancer, and Who Is Investing in It?
How investors can participate in the fight against cancer.
Asset Allocation
Medical Technology and the Fight Against Cancer
Biomedical researchers are discovering drugs that improve patient care and although many needs remain unmet, investment opportunities emerge.
Asset Allocation
How Memorial Sloan Kettering Funds Its Cancer Fight
Under CIO Jason Klein, the celebrated hospital has leveraged its top-notch research and well-managed investments to produce still more breakthroughs.
Market Moves
Can Investors Both Earn Returns and End Cancer?
Billions are pouring into cancer treatments around the world, so investors and funders discuss how institutional investors can access returns.
On-Demand Webinar: Can Investors Earn Returns and End Cancer?
Don’t miss your chance to learn from knowledgeable professionals about the interconnectivity and the investment opportunities available across biotech venture and other asset classes.
Sustainability
Sustainability is affecting all aspects of business and as a result, creating opportunities for institutional investors.
Asset Allocation
How Sustainability Disclosures and Regulations Benefit Investors
Information becoming available under new regulatory disclosures can be beneficial for investors looking to make sustainable investments.
Asset Allocation
Investing in the Inputs
How investors are capitalizing on the need for sustainable building materials.
Asset Allocation
Taking Wing: Renewable Aviation Fuel Could Have a Strong Investment Future
Chevron and smaller companies bet that animal fats, trash and sugar, among other offbeat things, will power airplanes.
Opinion
Identify Risk and Opportunity Through Sustainability Data
Enhance investment analysis by integrating ESG performance scores and key issue data.
Opinion
The Impact of Impact Investing: SDGs and ESG
By building a customized portfolio based on ESG and UN SDG principles, investors can have an impact without sacrificing returns.
Demographics
How are growing longevity and other demographic trends in the U.S. and globally affecting institutional asset allocators and the portfolios they manage?
Market Moves
The Longevity Question
How will institutional investors adapt to a population that is living longer?
Market Moves
Maybe Baby Boomers Won’t Tank the Stock Market by Cashing Out
The common wisdom has been that retirees will liquidate their holdings in securities and real estate to fund their old age.
Market Moves
Working Past 65 Redefines Portfolios and Retirement
As economic pressures mount, a shift toward extended employment for older workers will increase, changing what it means to be retired.
Opinion
Change Blindness?
The risks and opportunities of demographic change are hiding in plain sight.