Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 109
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Opinion PiecesMaking a difference
“This time is different”. Such claims were rightly skewered in a well-known book by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. But with the benefit of recent experience it should be clear that their argument did not go far enough.
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Country ReportNetherlands: Pension managers take alternative routes
Dutch pension managers are responding in different ways to the challenges of investing in alternative and illiquid asset classes
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: Commission renews green vows
The EU is proposing a taxonomy for non-sustainable industries following the publication of the green taxonomy last year
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Special ReportChina: Western firms rethink their options
Many expect the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to prompt western companies to distance themselves from China
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Features
Briefing: The long march to deleveraging
Global debt reached a new record during the first quarter of this year, reaching 331% of GDP, or $258trn (€229trn), according to the Institute of International Finance, the global association of the finance industry.
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Asset Class ReportsSmall caps: All is not lost
Some small-cap companies have not only survived effects of the pandemic but are even thriving
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Opinion PiecesThe post-pandemic economy could be more of the same
There seems to be a consensus that COVID-19 will bring momentous change to the global economic order. Commentators point to several developments to support this idea.
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Country ReportNetherlands: View from the top
Gerard van Olphen, chair of the executive board at APG, discussed the agreement with Liam Kennedy at IPE’s Summer Pension Congress
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: The promise of disclosures
New EU sustainability reporting requirements for investors could drive companies to improve disclosures. But making the new standards useful for end-investors could still be a challenge
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Special ReportChina: ESG with Chinese characteristics
Pressure from international and domestic investors is driving an upsurge in ESG adoption by Chinese companies
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InterviewsInterview: Dambisa Moyo on the geopolitics of global debt
When asked a simple question about global debt, economist and author Dambisa Moyo introduces a far more complex discussion about geopolitics.
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Special ReportAustria: New government, old dilemmas
The new coalition government has made slow progress towards pension reform
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Opinion PiecesTake from the young to give to the old
For many years, the Dutch pension system was considered one of the world’s best – it was top in class with Denmark in the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index annual study last year.
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Country ReportNetherlands: Is Dutch pensions reform EU-proof?
There are reasons to think that the new Dutch pension contract could fall foul of European law
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: Tentative steps on green classification
The first investors are already applying the EU’s green taxonomy but there are questions about the applicability of the Ecolabel to ESG funds
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Special ReportChina: Just a pit stop on the BRI journey
China has taken its foot off the pedal of its Belt and Road Initiative temporarily to deal with domestic issues and COVID-19
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Special ReportBelgium: Steady as she goes
Improvements to the country’s pension system have continued in the face of persistent political problems and the global health crisis
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Special ReportDenmark: Pension firms in general good health
The Danish financial regulator concludes that pension companies are well-capitalised following a three-month examination of solvency levels
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Special ReportFinland: Tripartite blueprint set to unify pensions
The government pushes ahead with plans for the most extensive reform of the public and private pensions systems in decades
