The financial meltdown sparked by Covid-19 is yet another nail in the coffin of the final-year salary scheme, where employers bear all retirement risks. Yields have plunged to record levels and will be kept there […]

“Our neglect of socio-environmental issues will shock future generations, just as our predecessors’ neglect of slavery shocks us today” said the chief investment officer at a French pension plan participating in the latest KPMG/CREATE report […]

Future-proofing their portfolios has been racing up investors’ agendas since the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s 2015 landmark speech Breaking the tragedy of the horizon. He categorised three risks from global warming: physical, such […]

2016 ushered in an age of techno-utopianism when a computer algorithm called AlphaGo made history. It beat the 18-time world champion of Go, a fiendishly complicated ancient Chinese board game with an astonishing 10170 possible […]

The idea that companies that are rated high on a myriad of ESG metrics will deliver superior investment returns has long lost its currency. The key issue now is how far ESG considerations are pertinent […]

A growing number of institutional investors are switching to alternative risk premia: a systematic rules-based style of investing used by hedge fund managers for the past three decades. Under it, asset classes can be broken […]

Remember BRIC? If not, you’re not the only one. In hindsight, it seems like a big marketing ploy. The acronym was coined in the last decade to highlight the rise of four awakening giants – […]