Investors can no longer expect double-digit returns as inflation has roared back to life and central banks are tightening policy. A higher-for-longer interest rate environment will require a different approach to asset allocation and portfolio construction. Pension plans are looking to real assets and private markets to generate income.

We ask how the ESG performance of firms affects the asset allocation of a large sample of French employees between their employer’s stock and alternative investments in firm sponsored savings plans.

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Understanding the linkage between money velocity, psychology of inflation in the regime shift, and consequence for investors.

Understanding the linkage between money velocity, psychology of inflation in the regime shift, and consequence for investors.

Because of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the development of ESG investing and the emergence of net zero emission policies, climate risk is certainly the most important topic and challenge for asset owners and managers now and will remain so over the next five years.

ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing has been making news headlines recently.

An increasing number of institutional investors have adopted a total portfolio approach (TPA) as a response to the weaknesses of more traditional strategic asset allocation (SAA)-based methodologies.

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