All Features articles – Page 54
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Norges Bank Investment Management: Strategy shift at Europe’s biggest investor
Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), arguably the world’s most watched institutional investor, is considering adopting a risk-factor approach.
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India: Tax net benefits from bold move
Joseph Mariathasan finds India’s recent demonetisation exercise has caused some economic pain but it has also greatly increased the number of taxpayers in the country
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BHS Pension Scheme: The UK Pensions Regulator and the pariah
On 28 February came the news for which 19,000 former staff of the collapsed high-street chain BHS had been waiting: its former owner, Sir Philip Green, was to pay £363m (€414m) to prop up the company’s two pension schemes.
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Interview: Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
Peter Damgaard Jensen tells Susanna Rust about the need to keep up the momentum on climate change and develop more green investment opportunities for institutional investors
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Diary of an Investor: Reading the coffee grains
Can you guess the topic of discussion of the latest Wasserdicht global investment committee? You probably can: it was political risk
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Fiduciary managers need more competition
The review of the UK’s asset management market by the FCA may or may not result in tighter regulation of investment advice. But the regulator would do well to continue focusing on investment consulting firms that offer fiduciary management services
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From Our Perspective: Two decades of shifting perspectives
This spring marks 20 years since the first issue of IPE. Our founders Piers Diacre and Fennell Betson started this publication with an assumption that funded pension systems would become more widespread in time, leading to increased diversification and a need for clear, well-researched and well-presented information.
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ESG: From niche to norm?
Susanna Rust charts the evolution of responsible investment over the past 20 years
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Europe: The genie is out of the lamp
Times have changed since the Society for the German Language chose Alternativlos (without alternative) as its Unwort (literally ‘unword’ or ugliest word) of the year for 2010
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Europe: Managing geopolitical risk
European investors face an unprecedented array of political risks over the next few months. Daniel Ben-Ami reports
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UK Pensions: Eyes on the real world
Investment decisions should be made with a long-term, realistic view of the world, argues Carl Hitchman
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German pensions: A new not-quite revolution
The current reforms risk repeating some of the mistakes of the Riester plan. Devolving responsibility to social partners for creating new sector schemes risks passing the buck
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Features2016 Returns: Bounce-back time for European pension funds
European pension providers have begun reporting full-year returns for 2016, with several having fared better with their investments than the year before.
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator March 2017
When a shift in sentiment begins, the euphoria does not dull universally; rather, the centre remains lustrous, while the edges are the first to fade
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Pensions Accounting: Stakeholder values
The year got off to an unexpectedly entertaining start with the eruption of a heated corporate-reporting row. The UK’s Financial Reporting Council finds itself facing its old adversary, Pensions & Investment Research Consultants
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Active Fixed Income: Battle for the edge in bond markets
Active bond managers are having to work hard to convince investors that they can provide better value for money than passive strategies
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Netherlands: Actors take centre stage at pensions debate
Dutch pensions experts and the actors Gijs Scholten van Aschat and Jacqueline Blom shared the stage of theatre Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam for a theatrical debate about pensions last month
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ESG: Antibiotics on the agenda
There is growing concern that the overuse of antibiotics could have great human and financial costs
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Ahead of the Curve: The diversification conundrum
Francesco Sandrini says that as the global economy emerges from a period of low growth and low inflation, investors appear to be ignoring risk in their diversification choices
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Asset Allocation: The big picture
While politics will always have some sway over capital markets, 2017 looks like being one of those years in which unpredictable political influence is the dominant theme throughout
