Creating Investment Organizations for the Future: Insights from Asset Owners

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  • Asset owners are building multi-generational, long-horizon portfolios
  • PGGM is transitioning to a 3D framework that integrates risk, return, and impact
  • PGGM plans to direct 20% of its investment portfolio to helping achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2025
  • CPP Investments focuses on the sustainability of the plan itself and its long-term financial standing
  • CPP Investments leverages its long-horizon advantage in selecting sectors and delivering returns
  • Both PGGM and CPP Investments believe future investment professionals need to be tech and data savvy and have a greater breadth of knowledge and experience
  • Future investment teams are expected to be more T-shaped, with a focus on connecting the dots across different specialties

Asset owners, such as pension funds, are building multi-generational, long-horizon portfolios and thinking about the future of investment management. PGGM, the investment organization for PFZW, the second largest pension fund in the Netherlands, is transitioning to a 3D framework that integrates risk, return, and impact. They plan to direct 20% of their investment portfolio to helping achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2025. CPP Investments, which manages assets for the Canada Pension Plan, focuses on the sustainability of the plan itself and its long-term financial standing. Both PGGM and CPP Investments believe that future investment professionals need to be tech and data savvy and have a greater breadth of knowledge and experience. They also expect future investment teams to be more T-shaped, with a focus on connecting the dots across different specialties.

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