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Project Governance For Institutions
I’m increasingly convinced that the theories and concepts coming out of the ‘project management and governance’ literature offer incredible insights into how we might improve ‘institutional investment...
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Risk and Creative Thinking
How does a long-term investor include long-term risks into current investment decision-making? Funny you should ask, because I just read all about how Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is trying to do...
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Why Public Pensions Should Partner
You’re a publicly sponsored institutional investor out on the ‘frontiers of finance’ looking to do alternative investments globally and on a direct basis. Why? You’re fed up paying the 2 and 20 fees to...
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Sovereigns Seeding Managers
In the wake of the financial crisis, institutional investors have been rethinking the way they access markets. Frustrated with an obvious misalignment of interests and seemingly extravagant fees, the...
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Returns: Where in the World?
The Pacific Pension Institute event I was attending in Kuala Lumpur wrapped up yesterday. It was well worth the 24 hours of airplanes, as I came away with some new insights into the Asian marketplace —...
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The Downside of Fiduciary Duty
There are a lot of people and organizations thinking about ways to extend the time-horizon of institutional investors these days. For example, there’s this World Economic Forum project on long-term...
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Lessons from Islamic Finance
There is a growing frustration with the traditional theories of finance among institutional investors. For example, at the Institutional Investor Roundtable I attended in Singapore last week, only ~15...
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Dear Pension: Can You Please Pay For My Infrastructure?
We knew this day was coming. Western governments have finally come to recognize that they: 1) are broke; 2) are unable to repair (or build) their dilapidated (or non-existent) infrastructure; 3) are...
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Should Ontario Consolidate Its Public Pension Plans?
Two weeks ago, Ontario was abuzz over a blog post by Mark McQueen suggesting that the Canadian Province scrap its five large defined benefit pensions (HOOPP, OMERS, OPB, OP Trust and OTPP) in favor of...
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Dutch Pension Fund Learns From Google
How can a public pension or sovereign fund design an effective talent management plan to attract, incent and retain the necessary human capital to meet their objectives? I’ve asked this question many...
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