Today's top news stories
Accounting roundup: IASB plans changes to hybrid scheme rules
Plus: EFRAG and IASB to report later this year on hybrid discount rate rule; FRC audited Patisserie Valerie accounts
PGGM and Shell assess joint bid for green energy firm Eneco
Players aim at expanding sustainable energy products and services across Northwest Europe
Trio of Dutch asset managers launch joint private equity platform
Achmea IM, Blue Sky Group and SPF Beheer aim to cut costs in half for pension fund clients via co-investments
Danish roundup: MP, Industriens, Sampension post weak 2018 returns
Brexit, trade war and rising interest rates dragged markets down, says academics’ fund
Industry fears ‘de-facto nationalisation’ of Romanian second pillar
Government cuts fees for occupational pension providers and increases capital requirements
Joseph Mariathasan: Nuclear needs warming up
Hitachi seems likely to abandon plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales due to a lack of firm investor commitments. This follows the abandonment by Toshiba of a nuclear project in Cumbria last year.
IPE Conference: PensionDanmark is Europe’s best pension fund
CEO Torben Möger Pedersen takes solo award, while AP4, FRR, ERAFP and ÄVWL are all multiple winners
Beyond pensions: Debating auto-enrolment’s potential
Could auto-enrolment pension savings be used to pay off loans or buy a house?
IPE Conference: The intertwined future of retirement and investment
Panellists discuss outcomes-based investing, ESG, fees, Brexit and more
Joseph Mariathasan: China’s evolving ESG standards
IPE’s contributing editor gives his perspective on a panel debate from last week’s IPE Conference
IPE Conference: How Ireland’s sovereign fund will invest from 2019
IPE Conference: Veritas CIO on ‘beautiful’ Finnish pension system
IPE Conference: AP4 chief in no rush to add illiquids
IPE Conference: China will not exit coal any time soon
IPE Conference: The areas under scrutiny by EC’s pensions expert group
Chart of the Week: The changing Irish pension landscape
IPE Conference: EU should ‘use single market access to its advantage’
IPE Conference: Quantitative v qualitative in impact investing
IPE Conference: Irish government wants to lead in green finance
IPE Conference: Rethinking retirement income adequacy [updated]
IPE Conference: Governments must ‘get real’ on infrastructure investing
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On the Record: Adapting to change
As the equity markets begin 2019 in worse shape than last year, we asked three European pension funds how they conceive and execute their equity strategy, in order protect the portfolio
How We Run our Money: PWRI
Xander den Uyl, chairman of PWRI, the Dutch fund for disabled workers, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about its particular approach to ESG
Briefing: Collateral challenges
Rising interest rates put collateral management strategies to the test
Briefing: Trade war, a primer
Protectionism is becoming more widespread despite the benefits of free trade being understood for more than two centuries
Briefing: MiFID II: a year on
The new rules are having a dramatic effect on the world of investment research
A glimpse into the future
For many people, being asked to solve their retirement planning problems is akin to being asked to build their own car
Double standards on trade
No wonder the discussion of trade is in such a tangle. The terminology around the subject is almost designed to cause confusion.
High yield: Coping with a new environment
This year high-yield investors will have to weather not only the winding up of quantitative easing but additional political challenges
Global Equities: Valuation vagaries
Mean reversion is useful in valuing stocks, but there are many unpredictable factors that can disrupt long-term assumptions
Emerging Market Debt: Sentiments drown out sense
The political and economic uncertainty surrounding Turkey and Argentina is distracting investors from the sound fundamentals to be found elsewhere across the asset class
Long Term Matters: What do Facebook’s investors care?
Mark Zuckerberg “is a bigger threat to American democracy than Donald Trump”, says David Runciman, professor of politics at Cambridge University
Guest Viewpoint: Sviatoslav Rosov, CFA Institute
The statistics on public market participation by corporations over the past two decades make grim reading. The US had 14% fewer exchange-listed firms in 2012 than in 1975
Guest viewpoint: Simon Lewis, AFME
Europe’s capital markets are facing some of their toughest challenges since the global financial crisis
Long Term Matters: What should investors do about authoritarian governments?
In October, I wrote that investors would soon have to choose between backing social justice or going along with authoritarian- ism. I was not expecting that the choice would come so quickly
Guest Viewpoint: Jim Hawley and Jon Lukomnik
It is fitting that we launched our ‘Purpose of Asset Management’ paper in London, not far from 221b Baker Street, the home of the famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes.
