Hiro Mizuno
17 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 9, 2020 by Hiro Mizuno · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Jul 9, 2020 negative
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Jul 9, 2020 negative
Mizuno: Divesting carbon-heavy industries does not reduce global carbon emissions
“We are passing ownership of those problematic business to the people who don't care about it. We don't want it to reduce the carbon footprint by divesting carbon heavy industry because it doesn't reduce the carbon footprint of the world anyway.”
Jul 9, 2020
Mizuno: Large Asset Owners Cannot Protect Portfolios Within Unsustainable Global Markets
“If I look at the long-term performance of all the big asset owners, I mean, big or small, their performance pretty much dictated by what happened to the global economy. Or the global stock market. I concluded that we probably think the way to change that or ma…”
Jul 9, 2020 positive
Mizuno: GPIF refocused on systemic market sustainability over manager selection
“What I decided to do is I tried to change people's mindset. We had been spending a lot of time and energy on something which actually makes marginal difference. Why don't we try to spend time to make the real difference, which is trying to contribute and do th…”
Jul 9, 2020 positive
Mizuno: Passive Investing Becomes Inefficient Without Active Investors Setting Prices
“Passive investment is effective or efficient because it take all the active managers or the active investors opinion into their pricing. So the basically they are free riding all the other active investors. I'm not only talking about active portfolio manager, …”
Jul 9, 2020 negative
Jul 9, 2020 neutral
Mizuno: Pension CIO decisions make marginal difference compared to board asset mix
“Well, the point is, most of the big asset owners, let's take public pension fund as an example, GPF, Culpers, Coasters, and all the big public pension funds, their most critical decision In terms of the financial performance of their portfolio performance is n…”
Jul 9, 2020 positive
Mizuno: Portfolio Sustainability Depends Sequentially on Market, Society, and Environment
“We just basically came up with the concept of, for our portfolio to become sustainable, We need to make sure the capital market to be sustainable, and for the capital market to be sustainable, we need to make sure society must be sustainable, and for the socie…”
Jul 9, 2020 positive
Jul 9, 2020 positive
Jul 9, 2020 negative
Mizuno: Asset management is overly afraid to act without standardized metrics
“I always find that this industry, we are very afraid of doing something new without having a clear concept of a measurement and a standardized data set. But I always think that in real world, you need to start it. But when we started, we need to make sure that…”
Jul 9, 2020
Mizuno: Only two passive managers earned extra fees for stewardship at GPIF
“And by the time I left, there are only two passive managers who proposed their GPIF, their new business model with specific KPI, how to improve their stewardship activities, and they received extra layout fees from the GPIF.”
Jul 9, 2020 bearish
Jul 9, 2020
Mizuno: Passive managers only add value through stewardship, not index tracking
“And the index tracking, that's what people say that they add value, but I really believe that should be cost-free because we don't need a human to track the index anymore. Only the area I thought the passive manager can really add value and differentiate their…”