All articles by Gail Moss – Page 11
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Investors set 2030 deadline for mining reforms
An investor group, led by CEPB and the Council on Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds, has committed to further interventions to drive change, including on tailings dams
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InterviewsExit Interview: Jordi Jofra - Still thinking outside the box
It is well into Spain’s lockdown and Jordi Jofra is ensconced in a village 40km from his former office in Barcelona. One of his lockdown boxes ticked has been to finish reading Men without Women, Haruki Murakami’s best-selling collection of short stories on men and alienation – perhaps appropriate for the times.
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Country ReportCEE – Croatia: Real diversification
A lack of local diversification opportunities is holding back Croatian pension funds
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Country ReportCEE – Estonia: Preparing for a liquidity storm
A rule allowing early withdrawals is changing the dynamics of the Estonian pension business
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FeaturesPerspective: Litigation - state of pay?
Changes in legislation like the UK’s Consumer Rights Act 2015 have led to an increase of class actions led by pension funds as they seek to recover investment losses
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Tyne and Wear pension fund shares in $62.5m class action payout
Preliminary approval given to settlement with Chilean mining company
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Wellcome Trust ‘prospers’ under COVID-19 fallout with 12.3% return
The charity raised cash levels and hedged around 20% of its public equity exposure before the market decline
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Language tweaks can lower barriers to pension engagement, says study
NEST Insight, Invesco and language strategy specialists collaborate on research recommending ‘Four Ps’ approach
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CCLA to launch mental health benchmark
The benchmark will provide investors with an objective way of assessing companies on their mental health record
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Norfolk Pension Fund gets OK for Apple shareholder suit
Norfolk County Council, the pension fund’s administering authority, is the lead plaintiff in the securities class action
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Special ReportA new standard for carbon investing
The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials aims to improve disclosure of the greenhouse gas emissions of financial investments
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Controversial Estonian pension reforms cross the finishing line
New law turns second pillar into a voluntary system
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NewsESG roundup: BlackRock backs IFRS standards board proposal
Plus: TCFD looks into ’implied temperature rise’ metric, investors engage with miners on indigenous community rights
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ESG is huge opportunity for European managers – report
But asset managers warned ‘you cannot have your cake and eat it’
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New law ups governance requirements in Portugal
Portuguese occupational pension funds returned an average 5.9% over the second quarter of 2020
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Sharp rebound in Q2 for Spanish pension funds
The median return from April to June was 5.2%, with some funds achieving around 9%, and no funds reporting negative returns
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Long-term low interest rates to lead schemes down riskier path, say strategists
According to the GRI, 173 rate cuts were made around the world between January and June 2020
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Special ReportAre too many products spoiling the ETF broth?
ETFs have been one of the finance industry’s great successes over the past three decades. With over 8,000 ETFs listed globally, the sector offers highly competitive fees and diversity of product, or so it is assumed.
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Special ReportETFs rise to the challenge
Exchange-traded funds and products (ETFs and ETPs) have been one of the biggest investment success stories in recent years. Their stunning popularity meant that, despite the shock of COVID-19, they had taken in US$294bn (€247bn) over the six months to end-June 2020, compared with US$210bn over the same period last year.
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Country ReportFrance: Steady workplace demand
New occupational pension savings plans are taking root, despite the lack of a regulatory push from pension reforms
