All IPE articles in April 2020 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
Research: The new benchmarks
Sustainability is set to become the gold standard of investing
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Country Report
Germany & Austria: Do social partners pensions have a future?
The implementation of social partner pensions between employer and trade unions has yet to take off
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Country Report
Austria: Time to step up
The new coalition government faces a difficult challenge in delivering long-anticipated occupational pension reform
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Special Report
Strategically Speaking: HSBC Global Asset Management
As the financial markets enter uncharted territory, HSBC GAM could be well placed to take advantage of the dislocations in Asian and emerging markets. Its aim, though, is to offer investors the full spectrum of fixed-income solutions, says Xavier Baraton, global CIO for fixed-income private debt and alternatives.
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Interviews
UK auto enrolment: The architecture of a reform
The UK’s auto-enrolment policy has been successful. But this success has been no accident, as a new research project shows
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Special Report
Dashboard tech: How AI can transform pensions
Dashboard technology like Moneyhub has the potential to prompt consolidation in UK DC pensions
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: The mega-cap conundrum
Last year was challenging for quantitative equity strategies with a large proportion of them underperforming their benchmark on a rolling one-year basis. There has, therefore, been a great deal of interest in understanding the shortcomings of quantitative portfolios over the same calendar year.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from US: The Democratic agenda takes shape
“On day one, [Joe] Biden will use the full authority of the executive branch to make progress and significantly reduce emissions. Biden recognises we must go further, faster and more aggressively than ever before, by (among other things) requiring public companies to disclose climate risks and the greenhouse gas emissions in their operations and supply chains.” That is Joe Biden’s ‘Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice’ as it appears on joebiden.com, the official campaign website.
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Country Report
Germany & Austria: ESG and alternatives rise up the agenda
German pension funds are embracing ESG and alternative assets in the search for improved yield
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Opinion Pieces
Long Term Matters: Investing in an age of pandemics
Pandemics are master classes in managing existential uncertainty. Being overwhelmed is ‘normal’. Here are seven actions that we can take as citizens and investment professionals. The focus is on the US and the UK: their governments are floundering. The unravelling in the US is dangerous for investors. Both the UK and the US are very responsive to the financial sector.
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Features
Fixed Income & Credit: Potential for adventures
Emerging-market local-currency corporate debt is under-explored by global investors
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News
Pensions Briefing: Incorporating ESG factors in pension investment activity
A look at IOPS supervisory guidance on the integration of ESG factors in the investment and risk management of pension funds
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Analysis
Pensions accounting: IASB faces disclosure tussle
The story of the latest work by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) on pensions disclosures starts last July when the board agreed on two specific disclosure amendments that it wanted to make to International Accounting Standard 19 (IAS 19), Employee Benefits.
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Features
IPE Quest Expectations Indicator: April 2020
This months’ figures were collected before the successive stock-market slumps.
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Interviews
How we run our money: AP2
Lars Lindblom (pictured), global fixed-income manager at the second Swedish buffer fund, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s evolving green bond investment strategy
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