All central banks articles
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NewsViewpoint: A challenging period for emerging market debt or a golden opportunity?
Despite the challenges posed by rising interest rates and the steep rise of the US dollar, none of the bigger emerging markets seem to be in debt distress
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InterviewsPension funds ride out the macro uncertainty
European institutions reflect on their priorities for 2024, as the fundamental questions about inflation and the impact of higher interest rates remain unanswered
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Opinion PiecesInvestors should focus on debt sustainability
The good news for institutional investors as 2024 approaches is that central banks seem to have accomplished something remarkable. Inflation is falling in the US and Europe after rising to levels not seen for decades, thanks to what have been among the fastest and sharpest rate hikes. Economic growth has held up, at least in the US. Many economists expect a soft landing there, and a mild recession in Europe.
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Special ReportProspects special report 2024: CIOs on what awaits investors
Asset management CIOs and strategists answer key questions about investment for the 12 months and beyond
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NewsSampension sticks to cautious equity tactics, with central banks in a bind
Danish labour-market pensions firm regrets early roll-back of equities exposure
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Breaking the banks
Pension funds should ally themselves with activist investors to break up the hegemony of large banks
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FeaturesResearch: Pension investing in an inflation fuelled world
Monica Defend and Amin Rajan highlight the big upheavals facing pension investors
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FeaturesUS dollar strength and the issues facing institutional investors
Most central banks across the world are raising interest rates – some more aggressively than others – but it is proving hard for any of them to out-hike the US Federal Reserve. The resulting widening interest rate differentials have been an important factor in the appreciation of the US currency.
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NewsCapital markets having to get to grips with new status quo, says Keva CIO
Finland’s biggest pension fund reports 6.4% investment loss for year so far
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Special ReportOutlook: Good riddance to negative interest rates
The net effect of setting interest rates below zero is negative, and central banks may be wary of such policies in the future
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NewsGreen central bankers group to mainstream consideration of nature risks
Nature-related financial risks should be considered by central bankers for fulfilment of their mandates, says NGFS
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NewsDanish pension funds invest more in unlisted equities than listed
Central bank analyses sector’s average allocations in three years up to 2021
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NewsIcelandic pension funds nearing foreign allocation goals, says central bank
Foreign currency purchases dipped in November to March to a quarter of the level seen previously
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NewsDerivatives drive DKK251bn total 2020 return for Denmark’s pension funds
Returns for individual pension providers varied from averages of 7.8% to -1.4%, central bank reports
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NewsFederal Reserve joins peers working on greening the financial system
NGFS also publishes analysis on central banks’ adoption of responsible investment practices and on monetary policy operations and climate change
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Special Report2021 Investment Horizons: The QE endgame
An executive board member at Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR), France’s €25bn pension reserve fund, charts a way to relieve the global debt burden
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NewsNBIM loses second leader ahead of Tangen’s official reshuffle
Ole Christian Bech-Moen, CIO of allocation strategies at Norway’s SWF, moves to monetary policy role at central banking operation
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NewsCall for central banks to become climate change ‘coordinating agents’
Joint BIS, Banque de France analysis says scenario-based analysis only a partial solution
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NewsJoseph Mariathasan: Climate change and central banks
The debate over climate change is certainly heating up – both metaphorically and literally – and could have a profound impact on how central banks behave
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NewsClimate risk: Central banks call for action on disclosure, taxonomies
Network for Greening the Financial System issues recommendations aimed at central banks but also policymakers
