Sarah Rundell

Mark Walker, CIO of the UK’s £21 billion ($27 billion) Coal Pension Trustees (CPT), is building a strategy markedly different from what most UK defined-benefit funds do.

The notion that an organisation can build a new identity from a strategy that champions continuity may sound like an oxymoron. But looking at the recent sweeping changes at the UK’s £50 billion ($64 billion) British Telecom Pension Scheme (BTPS), the idea makes perfect sense. BTPS has recently brought its liability-driven investment (LDI) and gilts […]

Investors need to be patient and harvest the power of compound returns, urged Myron Scholes, the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, emeritus, at Stanford University, and a Nobel laureate in economic sciences. Speaking at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University, Scholes also urged investors to use option prices as a source of information […]

Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever for the last decade, describes his day job as running the global consumer goods company. His full-time job is trying to create a different kind of global capitalism. In an inspirational speech to delegates at the PRI in Person in San Francisco, he announced the changes he said society […]