Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 130
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Country Report
IORP II: Race to adopt new rules
Putting the new IORP II rules in place will be a challenge for Italian pension funds in areas like risk management
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Special Report
Commentary: The endgame
UK pension funds should consider nine dimensions as they move to deris
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Special Report
Have we passed peak regulation?
Securities insiders believe the tide of regulation is finally ebbing
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Asset Class Reports
Are the FAANGs losing their bite?
Growth has slowed in the maturing US tech sector but deep-value investors are showing more interest in the stocks
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Features
Italy’s first-pillar obsession
Italy’s anti-establishment, eurosceptic coalition government has partly delivered on its promise to reform the pension system. ‘Dismantling’ the 2011 pension reform that curtailed benefits and raised the retirement age was key for both coalition partners – the Five Star Movement and the Lega. Previous governments had raised the retirement age.
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Country Report
ESG picks up steam
Italian pension funds have been late starters in embracing ESG principles but they are catching up fast
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Features
Adequacy: the all-important question
How do you measure success when it comes to pension reform? In the UK, it is clear that the government measures the success of auto-enrolment by some numbers, but not others.
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Special Report
Blockchain: On the slow burn
Blockchain projects have mostly not provided easy breakthroughs to date
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Asset Class Reports
Powerful currents transforming energy
Rapidly improving renewable energy technologies and global warming concerns are fuelling radical changes in the US energy sector
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Country Report
COVIP: The glass is half full
Despite its several ailments, the health of the Italian pension industry keeps improving
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Features
Editor's Notes: A radical ambition
Last month’s three doorstop reports from the EU’s 35-strong technical expert group (TEG) on sustainable finance have the potential to radically repurpose capital markets.
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Country Report
A real alternative to help Italy's economy
A review of think tank Itinerari Previdenziali’s and Borsa Italiana’s recent project on Italian pension funds’ real-economy investments
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Features
EC’s expert group releases landmark climate taxonomy
The European Commission’s expert group on sustainable finance last month published its long-awaited final recommendations for a taxonomy of environmentally sustainable activities, which is at the heart of the EU executive’s plan to harness the finance sector for its fight against climate change.
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Country Report
First pillar: Ahead of the game
Italy’s privatised first-pillar pension funds are modernising their strategies
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Features
Dutch pensions agreement dodges the real issues
Social partners have agreed compromises relating to the state pension age and early retirement Many crucial aspects are yet to be confirmed and could still derail efforts to reform the system
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Book Review
Book review: Achieving Investment Excellence
Fix asset allocation and the numbers will follow. This rule of thumb originated from an influential study published in 1986, which showed that 93.6% of variations in a portfolio’s returns are due to asset allocation policy.
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Features
IAS 19: How did they do it?
Two academics have analysed key amendments to IAS 19 and how they came about
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Opinion Pieces
Animal welfare: Probing the global meat complex
Everyone knows about ‘big oil’ and how much influence the global agribusiness sector has. But there is less awareness about the negative impacts of meat producers – the ‘global meat complex’.