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The research behind Institutional Funds Nexus: the questions it asks, the methods it uses and how evidence is reviewed before it is published.
Institutional funds · Professional research
unit · cadence · label
| Funding ratio | of liabilities | quarterly | MODELLED | SP-5720 |
| Surplus at risk, 1-in-20 | of liabilities | quarterly | MODELLED | SP-2992 |
| Hedge ratio, interest rate | of liabilities | monthly | OBSERVED | SP-2715 |
| Liquidity coverage of collateral calls | × | weekly | MODELLED | SP-5502 |
| Climate scenario funding impact | pct points | annual | MODELLED | SP-5139 |
Institutional Funds Nexus · Evidence registerEvidence register, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
Institutional Funds Nexus research is the evidence work behind the platform: questions such as pension system resilience and long-term risk, answered with actuarial mathematics as well as financial economics and macro-finance and reviewed before publication. Every result carries an evidence label, from observed to modelled or expert judgement, and missing data is shown as missing, never filled silently.
Fig.How a finding is reviewed before it is published. Design, not a record.
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For professional research, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights, population density and true-colour imagery with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on Oceania and the Pacific; 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.
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Funding and longevity exposures.
Climate, demographic and technology.
Investment and liability dependencies.
Market stress and private holdings.
Mandates, controls and accountability.
Cross-portfolio exposures.
| Question | Evidence used |
|---|---|
| How do heat and health change liabilities? | allocations, liabilities and collateral positions |
| Where do assets and sponsor overlap? | home-region holdings and sponsor sites |
| How much liquidity do hedges need? | asset-liability models |
Institutional Funds Nexus research concerns long-horizon asset-liability effects and liquidity. It is written for pension trustees and chief investment officers and actuaries advising schemes, carries an evidence label on every value and never performs any institution's own analysis of manager selection.
Results are labelled as observed, officially reported, estimated, modelled, forecast, scenario or expert judgement. Missing data is shown as missing, never filled silently.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Research integrity | Conduct of research in line with principles of reliability, honesty, respect and accountability, as the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity sets them out. |
| Evidence label | A tag naming the kind of evidence, such as observed or modelled, that should survive every summary. |
| Reproducibility | Obtaining consistent results using the same data and analysis code as the original study. |
| Universal ownership | Holding a slice of the whole economy, so that systemic risks and externalities fall on the investor's own portfolio. |
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