Joonsik(Joon) Kim

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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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23.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 0

Huge congrats and can't wait to read this!

23.07.2025 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wow, huge congrats!

15.07.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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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26.06.2025 09:51 — 👍 67    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 3

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.

27.05.2025 18:01 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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

05.05.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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...

04.05.2025 00:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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...

22.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

they should vote on social security privatization like right now

04.04.2025 14:48 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0