The authors of this article, Nicolas Firzli, WPC, David Weeks, AMNT, and the Hon. Nick Sherry, SEF, co-chaired the main financial roundtable during the COP21/Paris Agreement conference: the Paris Climate Finance Roundtable (CFR) , alongside Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable...

This short paper is an executive summary of our interview (20 Oct. 2022) with Abdallah al-Yahya on Asharq News with Bloomberg (MENA & Western Asia audience).Looking at GDP and population terms, Abu Dhabi, Australia, Canada, Holland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore appear to be midsize...

According to government estimates published earlier today, China’s economy expanded by 3.0% in 2022, far below the official growth rate of 5.5% initially targeted by Beijing – but still more than G20 average for the year, and, more importantly, higher than recent forecasts made by the IMF,...

The 8th World Pensions Forum was held 23-24 May: 130 pension executives and supranational experts representing $12 trillion in combined assets convened in Brussels to discuss “Effective Asset Ownership”. The Forum was pleased to note that some of our ideas were taken up by the Finnish...

The sixth annual World Pensions Forum was held on 23-24 February 2017 at the Queen's House in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.Over 120 representatives attended: from pension and sovereign funds, central banks and government agencies including financial regulators. Topics discussed included...

Ten years on from the collapse of mortgage markets in the United States and Britain and ensuing ‘Global Financial Crisis', this article examines the price dynamics of energy commodities, focusing on speculative bubbles, looking more particularly for clues as to when asset-price bubbles are...

The ‘COVID Crisis' has accelerated the mainstreaming of SDG-driven investment, with pension board members (trustees) playing an increasingly active role across all asset classes, from Sacramento to Sydney: governments (debt) and CEOs (equity) are having to commit more seriously to pressing...

The last weeks of 2018 have set new records in net new institutional investment flows into infrastructure funds, with more generalist private equity and investment management players joining this strategic asset class par excellence, as the trend is likely to continue well into 2019 – 2020.The...

Rising tensions in the Yellow Sea, a festering ‘Migrant Crisis' in Europe and Africa and resurgent antagonisms in the Persian Gulf are further threatening the Post-War social contract bequeathed by President Truman, Gen. Marshall and Gen. Eisenhower: praetorian Midwestern pragmatists whose...

English Abstract: Following the COP21 Summit, we've reached a point in economic history where real change can be expected – even if policy makers are unable or unwilling to curb the activities of oil companies in the United States… It's likely oil companies won't be in a position to reverse...