Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
If managing the pension savings of thousands of ordinary people who will one day depend on those savings for their retirement sounds like a serious business, that’s because it is.
Multi-billion-dollar portfolios look complex and challenging, and in some ways they are. The real complexity and challenge is managing people.
As this selection of articles and books generated over the course of 30 years in Investment Land illustrate, Benjamin Franklin’s adage, that its not about returns, but about risk, is as true as it ever was.
Take care of the risks and the returns will take care of themselves.
In the first in our series on ESG investing, Bev Durston and Frances Cowell ask whether Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is a sustainable shift in investment practice and priorities that can’t be ignored or a marketing exercise that can. September, 2021
In our previous blog, we found that ESG investing is an increasing focus which is becoming embedded into investor requirements. In this second part of our ESG blog, we look at how ESG factors and funds are selected. We find it not as straightforward as it may seem. November, 2021
In a new book by Frances Cowell and Matthew Levins1, leading risk managers question how realistic it is to regulate Risk Culture. September, 2015
Are We Wasting a Good Crisis? Many investors, taxpayers and financial professionals are asking whether regulations conceived in the quest for post-GFC reform really will help make the global financial system more stable. November, 2015
Investors in Hedge Funds would be unwise to rely solely or even primarily on regulations. Doing so is like relying only on traffic signs to drive your car: better than nothing but no substitute for looking where you are going. What should you be looking for? What do risk professionals do? May, 2010
Risk culture has never been more important to fulfilling financial organisations’ primary role of supporting the steady economic growth needed to serve future generations. But how do you know good risk culture when you see it? We ask ten of the world’s leading experts what they think the most important signals are. Its not always what you might think. October, 2010