OECD countries require billions in infrastructure investment for new projects and the rehabilitation of old assets. Public pensions are likewise underfunded and in need of stable, inflation-linked investment opportunities uncorrelated with the rest of their portfolio, making infrastructure a...

Climate change could have potentially devastating effects on societies and economies globally, and climate finance to combat the challenges related to it demands large-scale capital. However, this form of investment has been hampered by the unclear relationship between corporate environmental...

Knowledge management in institutional investment suffers from many misconceptions and a dearth of actionable models for best practice. This is problematic in various ways, not least of which is how it holds back knowledge management from acting as a bridge to deployment of artificial...

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...

As a leading branch of artificial intelligence, deep learning promises competitive differentiation and more efficient operations for financial institutions. But the geographic and social structure of the deep-learning community complicates access to its most cutting-edge research for many...

Strategic partnerships can help companies improve their business models and profitability. The main advantages of strategic partnerships relate to their flexibility around financial commitments, focus and time: they are often less capital intensive than an M&A pathway; they can be focused on a...

The financial services industry, which has ballooned from an 8 to 40% share of all after tax corporate profits created in the American economy over the past 50 years, is undergoing an evolutionary shift. Following a period of sustained growth in assets and power, significant advancements in...

A growing number of institutional investors are turning away from external asset managers and other intermediaries and are instead looking to one another for assistance. Through collaboration, these investors hope to lever a new set of network economies. Can they actually co-invest successfully...

Innovation and Energy are likely to be two of the most attractive investment themes in the coming years. The world is moving to an increasingly technical and digital age, and the search for renewable sources of energy intensifies as the detrimental impacts of climate change increase in frequency...

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...