Harvard Business School professors Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim discuss the efforts of Hiro Mizuno, CIO of GPIF, the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund, one of the largest pools of capital in the world, to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio.
Rhode Island’s pension system continues to improve its relative investment performance when compared to similarly sized public pension funds, outperforming 78% of its peers in the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2019.
Asset managers must be careful not to apply lower standards of governance to environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) data than to other inputs into the investment process, according to a report.
The hedge fund firm will change its name to Sculptor Capital Management next month as it looks to put a foreign bribery scandal behind it, CIO reports.
(Reuters) – The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the country’s biggest public pension fund, on Wednesday eked out a 1.1% return on its investments in the first quarter, hit by a stronger Canadian dollar.
Aegon Real Assets US announced the closing of a $151 million national low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) fund sponsored by Aegon RA, a member company of Aegon Asset Management, the global group of asset managers affiliated with Netherlands-based Aegon N.V.