The foundations of capitalism : beneficiary asset managers -- Unleashing innovation through better governance -- Unleashing innovation through people -- Unleashing innovation through collaboration -- Unleashing locational advantage -- The valley of opportunity : bringing innovation to venture...

The Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) was established in 2008 to manage approximately C$70 billion on behalf of 26 pension, endowment, and government reserve funds in the Province of Alberta. The fund's over-arching goal is to earn incremental return on risk over what our clients...

In a slowing global economy with diminished confidence in the long-term prospects for public financial markets, many institutional investors are looking for innovative, alternative, and often private, investment strategies to meet elevated expected return targets. One source of potential...

Sovereign investors are often referred to as long-term investors. But it is still unclear that these investors pertain to the same category, as they vary on many dimensions. Previous research proposed typologies of sovereign investors based on external criteria such as region or size of assets...

Financing from institutional investors will be critical to achieving the sustainable development goals and curbing climate change. However, these large investors have been largely absent from multilateral blended finance initiatives. Partly as a result, such initiatives have been unable to reach...

One of the major trends over the past decade among Long-Term Investors (LTIs), such as pension funds and government funds, has been to move towards a more direct method of investing. The financial crisis of 2008-09 accelerated this ‘disintermediation', in particular within long-term private...

Investing in venture capital has been an unsatisfactory experience for many long-term institutional investors, as it has not performed in-line with their expectations for more than a decade. Consequently, many investors have been scaling back their venture commitments and, instead, have been...

As elaborated in our paper — Social Capital and Building an Institutional Investor's Collaborative Network — a new “collaborative” model of investing lies at the heart of our re-intermediation thesis, and this model is premised upon institutional investors forming broad and deep...