Pension funds must map the climate risks of their investments.
Professor of financial markets Mathijs van Dijk is skeptical about macro models that claim to do this. "Bottom-up is better. Van Dijk, affiliated with the RSM (Erasmus University), based this statement on an assessment of the methods that pension funds can use to describe the impact of climate risks. He made this assessment on behalf of the Transport pension fund.
Mathijs A. van Dijk is professor of finance at RSM, Erasmus University.