The 100-year portfolio: a thought experiment with real stakes
Imagine allocating for a horizon longer than any career. The exercise changes what counts as risk.
Independent reporting on fiduciary duty, climate, stewardship and systemic risk for the institutions that allocate the world's long-term capital.
Imagine allocating for a horizon longer than any career. The exercise changes what counts as risk.
The slowest-moving systemic risk is also the most certain. Ageing populations are already reshaping the long-horizon portfolio.
A sovereign fund's real client may be a citizen who will not be born for decades. Duty has to stretch to meet them.
A decarbonisation that strands workers and communities is not a clean transition. It is a deferred liability.
Nature got the TNFD. The social pillar is getting its own taskforce — and most portfolios cannot yet answer what it will ask.
For a universal owner, inequality is not a social cause adjacent to returns. It is a drag on the beta that produces them.
Ecological collapse sounds like an environmental story. Trace it through the portfolio and it becomes a balance-sheet one.
Voluntary nature reporting is about to become the basis for a global standard. The preparation window is now.
Carbon disclosure took a decade to go mainstream. Nature disclosure is doing it in two years.
Engagement only changes behaviour when there is a credible next step behind it. Here is the ladder.
Selling feels decisive. For an owner that holds the whole market, it is often the least powerful thing it can do.
The proxy advisors are stepping back from one-size-fits-all guidance. The vote, and the responsibility, return to the owner.
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