Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...

For reasons, checking in on foreign official holdings of US treasuries at the Fed. Now down $100 billion since 'Liberation day'. Note: That latest data point with the biggest weekly drop yet is from *before* Trump's attempted firing of the Fed governor.

Next release will be interesting (Thursday).

Picture of the article called 'The dark side of diversification: Passive finance and fossil-fuel investment'

What shapes fossil-fuel investment decisions?
What are pension funds’ climate considerations?
And how does the portfolio risk concept influence these issues?

Excited to see my paper "The dark side of diversification: Passive finance and fossil-fuel investment" published in @finandsoc.bsky.social!
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Huge congrats and can't wait to read this!

Wow, huge congrats!

In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition?

@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.

Now out in SER!

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As CPPIB backslides on climate, other Canadian pension giants remain committed to net-zero — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet Last week, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) quietly abandoned its 2022 commitment to invest the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) in line with achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The unaccep...

Seven of Canada’s largest pension funds remain committed to net-zero by 2050. Last week, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) quietly abandoned its 2022 commitment to invest the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) in line with achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

I didn’t know that! A broader global comparison would be fascinating.

What explains the rise of doctors in Taiwan's party politics? In my first publication with Sida Liu, we argue that a symbiotic alliance between an empowered medical association and a weak political party facilitated the rise of doctor-politicians.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HD88W...

Pension groups cut back on pioneering private equity investments Canadian pension funds are increasingly favouring partnerships with buyout firms

if @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social was serious about Canadian autonomy from the US, he'd get Canadian public pension funds to stop pouring money into US private equity funds whose bosses are embedded in the Trump Administration

www.ft.com/content/6e15...

they should vote on social security privatization like right now