All Features articles – Page 43
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FeaturesConference report: Grappling with the gig economy
The nature of work has changed profoundly and pension provision has struggled to keep up – and so, it seems, have some trade unions
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Conference Diary: Crisis, what crisis?
Is there a crisis brewing in the asset management industry? Such questions are heard more at conferences and events, reflecting disquiet as the euro crisis recedes and we approach the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
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Selection is key in EMD
Anxiety is growing about emerging market debt. US rate rises and the potential for a stronger dollar mean that EMD may be heading for turbulent times
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator: June 2018
This month’s IPE Expectations Indicator poll sees no change in some areas, some change in others, and a continuation of a long-term trend, which is, in itself, both a change and not a change.
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Featuresaba Anniversary Conference: ‘Grasp opportunities reform offers’
Germany’s occupational pension association delivered an impassioned defence of the country’s second-pillar pension system at its 80th annual conference in Berlin last month.
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Accounting Matters: Cutting the clutter
The IASB’s disclosure initiative project has passed many people by. It dates back to 2011, when the board needed something to do after the US refused to adopt IFRS
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Ahead of the Curve: Valuable tools for EMs
Emerging markets have smaller safety nets, making them prone to boom and bust cycles
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Asset Allocation: Mirages and safe havens
Creeping tensions have appeared in the interbank market that, in the past, sowed the seeds of economic downturns and financial crises
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Asset Allocation: Testing economic normality
Although the world economy is moving towards normalisation, after the global financial crisis, it is still testing, and sometimes breaching, so-called normal bounds
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UK Equities: The pariah asset
No one wants UK equities. The influential global fund manager survey published by Bank of America Merrill Lynch reported that they were the most unpopular asset in April
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Pension Income: As simple as possible but as complex as necessary
The UK government has deregulated to make room for a radical reshaping of the private pensions industry, through the so-called ‘freedom and choice’ policy
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FeaturesDiary of an Investor: What’s up with research costs?
In fixed income, no-one has ever really known how the research impacts on investment costs
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Renminbi on path to currency standard
China’s renminbi is starting to challenge the dollar as the dominant global currency
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Macro Matters: Populism is far from dead
Few words are as visceral, and yet as ill-defined, as populism. It has become a catch-all phrase for the sense of malaise sweeping the world
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FeaturesTechnological diffusion is fraught
It is easy to forget just how long it can take for an invention to become a pervasive technology. Even the most brilliant idea can take time before it is widely adopted
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Engagement: Strengthening the rules
A new EU directive aims to promote shareholder engagement and stewardship but numerous barriers could limit its effectiveness
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FeaturesShort Selling: The long and the short
Earlier this year, the UK politician Peter Kyle described BlackRock as “schizophrenic” for holding both long and short positions in Carillion, a London-listed construction company that went bankrupt in January.
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FeaturesThe price of skill
It remains to be seen whether pension funds regain their appetite for higher-fee alternative strategies that have fallen out of favour in recent years
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Features‘Quitaly’ remains an unlikely prospect
European markets have clearly shown anxiety about the joint reform programme presented by the two parties that have agreed to form a coalition government in Italy
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FeaturesVenturing into the unknown
Two projects designed to boost investment in local ‘growth’ companies and domestic assets were in the news last month, but for different reasons
