In a pivotal moment for Japan’s financial landscape, plans by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)  to widen its scope of asset managers have reverberated through domestic markets. With GPIF president Masataka Miyazono’s announcement at…

The demographic shifts, regulatory shifts, and the growing emphasis on sustainable and responsible investing, driven by increasing awareness of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are expanding the market reach of pension funds. Prime determinants…

The rise of indexing has done much to focus the minds of fund managers, advisers, and the end-client. AI is now doing exactly the same thing Last month, for the first time, passively-managed funds controlled…

In this article, we look at some of the critical and cyber-related risks and questions that pension trustees, corporates and members should be asking of each other and themselves.   2023 saw the first major…

Intermediaries are facing “unintended consequences” by blending multi asset funds together using only a past performance-based approach, according to Scopic Research. Managing director Paul Ilott pointed to how combining multi asset funds that have passed…

Last February, Microsoft rolled out Copilot, an artificial intelligence assistant that can write poems and code. But what exactly is a copilot and how are insurers using this type of generative AI? Digital Insurance reached out…

 Is AI revolutionising financial planning? With artificial intelligence (AI) dating back to the 1950s, the technology is nothing new in the world of financial advice, however, its use has increased in recent times, with many…

A look at whether the most money possible is all clients care about Hope Coumbe delves into an adviser’s recent admission about what their clients care about and how true it is across the board……

By: Arif Husain, Head of International Fixed Income and Chief Investment Investment Officer, TRowePrice Even after the late-year “Santa” rally, all-in yields in many credit sectors are near multi-decade highs, making it tempting to portfolio…

Nextwealth has published a report titled Future of Financial Advice Consultancy Nextwealth has identified five significant shifts in the financial advice industry it expects to see play out over the next five years. The firm…