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Dear CIOs: Let’s talk about the asset owner-isation of the UK
As UK pension asset owners grow in scale, investment partnerships must evolve to put decision-making, accountability and members at the centre
Pension funds are stress-testing every climate future except the most likely one
Ben McNeil, founder of Emmi, highlights the importance of understanding how a net-zero world impacts investments
To compete, Europe needs scale – not just simplification
Regulatory simplicity has become a significant part of the EU’s competitiveness agenda. But while it’s important, it’s not enough to make Europe competitive on its own.
Net zero: a capital allocation challenge
The transition to net zero is fundamentally a capital-allocation challenge underpinned by accelerating engineering realities
AI boom highlights a flawed bond market
Mark Versey, CEO of Aviva Investors, explains how AI-driven debt issuance is exposing passive bond investors to growing concentration risks and undermining traditional index diversification
The next EU budget must become a capital mobilisation strategy
Piotr Dmuchowski, CEO of PFR TFI and a board member of Sustainable Investment Forum Poland, says Europe’s next EU budget should use public funds to mobilise private capital for investment, resilience and competitiveness
Diversity Project to Inclusion in Finance – why our rebrand reflects a sharper ambition
The rebranding of the Diversity Project as Inclusion in Finance signals a sharper, more commercial focus, according to Ric van Weelden. As Europe undergoes its largest-ever transfer of investment responsibility, asset managers must reflect the people they serve
Viewpoint: For European investors, public versus private markets is the wrong question
Kamal Bhatia, president and CEO of Principal Asset Management, argues that investors should instead care about how different exposures interact with each other
Ten years from the Paris Agreement – what have we learned?
‘Democratic reauthorisation’ is key to reigniting lost impetus behind global climate transition, as is a fair distribution of the burdens and opportunities this entails
Why a credible SFDR framework needs more than category criteria
In his second regular column for IPE, Frédéric Ducoulombier of EDHEC Climate Institute argues that a credible categorisation-based SFDR system should require product manufacturers to substantiate how products deserve the category they claim
Exclusions: Time to move the clocks forward
Alexandra Danielsson at Canbury Insights and Carolyn Saunders at Dentons argue that with AI, asset owners can finally reopen exclusion policies that no longer stand up to scrutiny
Twenty years of evidence: Is it time to reconsider microfinance?
Stefan Beiner, partner at Swiss consultancy c-alm and former CIO of Publica, one of Switzerland’s largest pension funds, unpicks the investment benefits of microfinance
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