All Guest Viewpoint articles – Page 9
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Coronavirus – what should trustees be thinking about?
Trustees have a duty to pay benefits to members, but the current financial environment is keeping them on their toes.
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Steve Waygood
History may well look back on 2019 as the year the world finally woke up to the threats posed by climate change. Yet, with the negotiation failures that occurred at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid (COP25), the year ended on a significant downer.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Bond Yields Will Rise, But When?
U.S. bond yields have been declining for four decades; why would the next decade be any different? - Jim Caron, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, explains
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Gregg McClymont
If the purpose of a pension system is to deliver a stable income in retirement, then the UK, strictly speaking, is on a path to leaving pensions behind.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: DB funding regime change
What might the UK Pension Schemes Bill and upcoming changes to the funding regime mean for managing DB schemes?
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: A more precise way to unlock targeted factors
Factor investing is built on the premise that investors can manage risk and returns by applying an appropriate mix of equity factors such as value, quality, size, momentum and low volatility.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Investing in green doesn’t equal greening the world
Financial products and services marketed as green must make a clear and measurable difference to the transition to environmental sustainability, argues Ben Caldecott.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Fiduciary duty and global warming
ESG is not the same as global warming, or climate change. There are overlaps, but the differences are more important. In essence, ESG is on the same level as a political conviction.
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Ric van Weelden
Asset owners have realised that diversity is more than just an ESG matter
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Fabrice Demarigny, Joachim Nagel & Corien Wortmann-Kool
“A reboot of the CMU has moved up the European policy agenda”
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Bob Collie
“With DC now globally dominant, the momentum that has been building is likely to continue”
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Kerrin Rosenberg
“It is crucial to remember that the focus on good governance extends to including illiquid and private investment”
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Jennifer Choi & Brian Hoehn
“Principles 3.0 is intended to offer a road map to optimal partnerships in the private equity industry”
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Tracy Blackwell, Pension Insurance Corporation
The financial services industry is one of the least trusted in the UK. The Purpose of Finance project aims to address issues of trust and reform
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Adam Matthews and John Howchin
“The Brumadinho dam tragedy causes us to question if we have created the conditions for a set of disasters”
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Beat Zaugg
A striking indication of ESG’s importance in Switzerland is that Ueli Maurer, the country’s president, will be the keynote speaker at the Swiss Sustainable Finance annual conference in Bern
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Christin ter Braak-Forstinger
Impact investing has undergone a rapid evolution over the past decade. What originally started with investments in countries at the bottom of the pyramid has become a valid investment approach in developed countries as well.
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Manuel Adamini, Sean Flannery, Toby Heaps and Eloy Lindeijer
“Time to invite brown corporates to the green bond party”
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: David Kavanagh
The deadline for national implementation of the IORP II directive passed this January
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Lisa Brüggen & Thomas Post
”Pension funds, insurance companies and policymakers should limit choices to 6-22 option”
