The ‘Outsourced Chief Investment Officer’ (or ‘OCIO’) investment model is on the rise. Market volatility, increased portfolio complexity and growing regulatory burdens are encouraging the trend

Transaction cost analysis (TCA) awareness is on the rise, with equity and bond investors increasingly recognising trading as a key area of leakage.

Martha Brindle, Director, Public Markets at bfinance sat down with Flora Gaber, Head of ESG Analysis at AP7, part of the Swedish Public Pension agency which manages around $80 billion, to discuss

Investors are grappling with cost management challenges amid persistent inflation, heightened ESG requirements and regulatory burdens. To find out more, bfinance surveyed nearly 200 asset owners

On 20th June 2023, investors gathered in London for a roundtable on the theme of biodiversity. Recent years have seen sustainability and climate change placed atop the priority list for many

Less than a decade after the removal of capital controls that banned pension funds from investing assets overseas, Iceland is now achieving international recognition for the strength and health

With investor sentiment now appearing to shift in favour of active equity management, as indicated in bfinance’s recent Asset Owner Survey, we ask portfolio design specialist Ruben Mutsaers: what

BlackRock, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Sequoia Capital are among the named investors of FTX — the Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange whose collapse has made headlines across the

When it comes to selecting and working with external asset managers, larger asset owners have a dual responsibility—says Majdi Chammas of Första AP-Fonden (AP1), one of Sweden’s four pension

The profoundly altered work environment ushered in by COVID-19 has created new avenues for cyber-attacks—including collaboration tools, videoconferencing solutions, devices and cloud-based

The bfinance 2022 Insurer Investment Survey provides a detailed look at key changes in insurance firms’ investment portfolios, risk exposures and resourcing/implementation.

Amid the escalating US/China trade war, no asset class has endured more collateral damage than Chinese equities. Yet active managers have delivered stronger results. This brief research note

Nordic and Dutch investors are shifting the ESG agenda decisively towards ‘impact’ – whether that takes the form of measuring non-financial portfolio outcomes ex post or targeting social and

How are investors’ ESG priorities and practices changing? We surveyed 256 asset owners around the globe with assets in excess of US$7 trillion to discover which approaches they now use and

With diversity becoming an increasingly visible priority for investors, how do asset managers measure up? In this article we take a closer look at infrastructure managers, where recent searches

Pension fund CIOs often enter their roles wanting to be agents of change, bringing new strategies and new perspectives to their institutions.

The latest edition in bfinance’s biennial Investment Management Fees series. New analysis highlights areas where investors may be able to benefit from pricing trends, with ESG/Impact at the

The latest edition in bfinance’s biennial Investment Management Fees series. New analysis highlights areas where investors may be able to benefit from pricing trends, with ESG/Impact at the

With investors honing in on the potential for greater operational efficiency, external fund hosting services are becoming increasingly popular, with a diverse range of banks, asset managers and

How can pension fund trustees provide effective governance on the subject of cost? Ensuring value for money is central to fulfilling fiduciary duty.