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Asset Management Nexus · Industry scope and publisher

Industry scope and publisher

Asset Management Nexus is published by The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), a nonprofit corporation registered in Nevada, United States, operating as a business league for the financial services industry. A business league works for the common interest of an industry, not the private business of any member. This page sets out the platform's industry scope, its subject community and its legal limitations. The platform home gives the overview.

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  1. PublisherThe Global Risks Alliance
  2. FieldCapital markets and investment, Climate and hazards, Biodiversity and nature
  3. StatusEstablished
  4. Service levelR0: information and enquiries

GRA · Established · service level R0

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Counterparts
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Platforms in shared fields at GCRI, GRF and GRA
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Nexus Reports series it contributes to
01In brief

The short answer.

Asset Management Nexus is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Alliance for capital markets and investment, climate and hazards, and biodiversity and nature. Its mandate covers public and private asset management, long-term risk, stewardship and systemic investment exposures. GRA publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is established and works at service level R0, information and enquiries.

02Canvas

Mandate to authority.

Canvas · mandate to authorityDesign, not a record
How Asset Management Nexus is governedA mandate sets the platform's scope; an editor and reviewers govern what it publishes; programmes and the community supply the work; the integrity route handles corrections; authority over decisions stays outside. Design of the governance, not a record.

Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.

03Geography

Activity and exposure in North America.

For industry scope and publisher, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights and population density with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on North America; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.

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Activity and exposure, for this page

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For industry scope and publisher, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights and population density with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on North America; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · GDACS · CIESIN/Columbia, NASA SEDAC HBASESources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Live: GDACS (EC JRC / UN OCHA) Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Context: CIESIN/Columbia, NASA SEDAC HBASE. Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, and NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC): Global Human Built-up And Settlement Extent (HBASE) 2010; Seto, Guneralp and Hutyra 2012, Global Grid of Probabilities of Urban Expansion to 2030; Global Urban Heat Island (UHI) Data Set, 2013.
  • Optional layers (35 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
  • Enhanced vegetation index, rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra EVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

04Industry scope

Public and private asset management, and the risks they share.

The platform covers public and private asset management: listed equities and bonds, private markets, real assets and the institutions that own and manage them. Its focus is long-term risk, stewardship and systemic investment exposures. Its methods are portfolio concentration analysis, disclosure methods and long-horizon scenarios.

Its subject community is portfolio researchers, investment managers, asset owners and stewardship teams.

05Field and frame

Asset Management Nexus: the field and the rules it is read against.

Asset Management Nexus is an established GRA community. Its thesis concerns public and private asset management, long-term risk, stewardship and systemic investment exposures. It serves portfolio managers and analysts, stewardship and engagement teams, risk and liquidity managers in funds and investment consultants and researchers.

Standard setterInstrument that frames the work of Asset Management Nexus
IOSCOobjectives and principles and fund liquidity recommendations
ISSBIFRS S1 and S2, with the 2025 amendments for financed emissions
PCAFfinanced emissions standard, third edition
06Boundary

What Asset Management Nexus never discusses or produces.

  • Recommendations to buy, hold or sell, in any Asset Management Nexus setting.
  • Collective voting or exclusion commitments, in any Asset Management Nexus setting.
  • Any manager's holdings or flows, in any Asset Management Nexus setting.
  • Fund ratings or rankings, in any Asset Management Nexus setting.
07Publisher and status

Who is responsible.

ItemFact
PublisherThe Global Risks Alliance (GRA), a nonprofit business league
Platform statusEstablished: the published root is preserved and existing activity is being checked against records
Service levelR0: information and enquiries
Contactresearch@globalriskalliance.com for research; membership@globalriskalliance.com for membership interest
Address4500 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706, United States
09How work is organised

Precompetitive by design.

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    Shared questions

    Work addresses questions every institution faces and none can answer alone, such as common exposures.

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    Public methods

    Methods and their limits are published so that each institution can apply them independently.

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    Separate decisions

    Investment and business decisions stay with each institution. See fiduciary boundaries.

10Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
Service level R0The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment.
Conflict of interestA situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review.
Liquidity mismatchThe gap between how quickly a fund promises to repay investors and how quickly it can sell its assets without loss.
StewardshipInvestors' use of ownership rights and influence, through voting, engagement and escalation, to protect long-term value.
11Sources

Where this page's references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

12Questions

Questions and answers.

Is GRA regulated as an investment adviser?
GRA does not provide investment advice and is not presented as an adviser. Its work is general industry research.
Who can take part?
Financial institutions and professionals working on asset management risk, once membership terms are adopted. Interest can be registered now.
How are competition risks managed?
Meetings are designed to follow written safeguards: agendas, no exchange of sensitive information, and records. Counsel reviews the policy before membership opens.
Does GRA receive fees linked to investments discussed on the platform?
No. GRA takes no transaction-based pay, and no investment is discussed with a view to a transaction.
Can a manager cite participation as an endorsement?
No. Participation confers no endorsement, approval, rating or regulatory standing, and must not be presented as such.
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