A New England-based university sent a letter to the investment managers in its endowment asking them to cooperate in tackling the issue of the lack of women and minorities in the asset management industry.
With the 2020 U.S. Presidential election just one week away, many in the institutional asset management industry are urging investors to focus on their long-term investments rather than the short-term outcome of who will spend the next four years in the White House.
Endowments typically invest countercyclically by decreasing active risky allocations during the run-up to a crisis, such as the Global Financial Crisis, and then increasing these allocations as risky asset prices fall following the start of a crisis, new research shows.
The world’s health and environment-related crises continue to highlight how sustainability risks can affect portfolios in a wide-ranging manner, according to new research.