Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 125
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Asset Class Reports
Defining the EM universe
A rising number of wealthy developed countries are still considered emerging market economies. Does this make sense?
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Special Report
Portfolio strategy – The good things about commodities
Commodities can provide portfolio diversification as well as a cushion against inflation shocks
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Special Report
Austria: Government’s fall is another blow to reform
Promised tax reforms were put on hold following the toppling of the government. But this is just the latest in a line of unfulfilled pension promises
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Opinion Pieces
An ageing Europe needs radical policy ideas
The Centre for Social Justice – a UK centre-right think tank – has proposed retirement policy reforms including raising the country’s state pension age to 75 by 2035
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Country Report
NEST: More than a pension
NEST’s Insight unit is looking at how to improve pensions outcomes for the less fortunate
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Special Report
US-China trade war: A trembling world
The trade conflict between the two largest economies is reverberating across the world
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Special Report
A green game changer
New EU green finance requirements will increase demand for better and more comparable ESG data
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Special Report
Belgium: Rolling out IORP II
Belgium is proud of its transposition of the EU’s new pension fund directive
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Country Report
Funding: Striking the right balance
Companies need to find the right balance between making pension deficit contributions and paying dividends to shareholders
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Special Report
CPPIB’s Asian quest
The largest Canadian pension fund already has a long track-record in the Asia-Pacific region but plans to grow its presence in the region
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Special Report
Denmark: New developments
The past year has brought changes affecting pensions and the investment sector, along with a new government
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Special Report
Capital markets: All roads lead to China
There are numerous channels through which the Chinese capital markets are opening up to foreign investors
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Special Report
Finland: Two to become one
The government is planning to unify the municipal and private-sector pension systems
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Special Report
France: Act I of the pensions big bang?
The government’s PACTE law could transform the pensions landscape
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Special Report
Germany: Tinkering at the edges
As yet no social partners have adopted the latest pension model in an already highly complex system
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Features
Pension promises: Hybrid plan accounting
Staff at the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are sketching out an approach to tackle so-called hybrid pension plan accounting
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Opinion Pieces
Greenwish: wishful thinking in the ESG world
Every so often I come across a paper which I think is a ‘must read’ and Duncan Austin’s ‘Greenwish: the wishful thinking undermining the ambition of sustainable business’* is one.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Canada: Considering controversy
Pension funds have essentially one goal – invest and grow the fund for members. But what if money-making investments run afoul of environmental, social and governance practices?
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Features
Global conflict: Another side of the triangle
So much attention is focused on the trade conflict between the US and China that it is all too easy to miss the bigger picture
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Features
Passive investment: Dawn of a new banner theme
This follow-up article on the rise of index investing highlights how pension plans are seeking to promote stewardship among their index managers