Two presenters at the recent Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Chicago, Roger Urwin of Towers Watson and Jaap van Dam of PGGM, report on a productive workshop session in which delegates brainstormed ideas for the ideal investment model for the future. The session led them to conclude that the industry has creative hands and smart heads.

Conferences can be dry affairs but this workshop session produced some full-on participation and demonstrated how fast-changing our investment environment is.

The delegates worked at tables in teams and responded to a case study with ideas for the ideal investment model for the future in the form of the investment strategy and the governance budget to get the strategy implemented. The key question was how…