Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 55
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Asset Class ReportsAsset class report – Equities
Factor investment strategies were once the ‘new black’ - scientific, quant driven approaches that could deliver the ‘smart beta’ nirvana of lower volatility returns and optimised exposure to robust return premia from small cap, value and quality stocks. Pundits always warned adopters that not all factors would perform all of the time - and indeed they didn’t. But investors are taking a fresh look at factor strategies now the extended spell of outperformance of growth stocks has passed, and value has reasserted itself.
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Country ReportCountry Report – Pensions in the Nordic Region (December 2022)
Nordic pension funds are getting to grips with biodiversity and natural capital in their investment portfolios, seeking to measure both the impact of companies they invest in and ways they can limit adverse effects on nature. Like other investors globally, many are just at the early stages of thinking about this - how they measure biodiversity, which metrics and approaches are gaining acceptance, and how best to report to stakeholders.
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Special ReportProspects 2023: Asset management roundtable
The past year was one of the most challenging ever for institutional investors. Here, asset allocators and others assess the current and future risks to portfolios and identify the opportunities in an environment that remains highly uncertain
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Country ReportNordic region: Investors embrace biodiversity initiatives
Measuring impact remains the biggest challenge
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Asset Class ReportsEquities – Factor investment strategies return to favour
After a few years of poor returns from factor investing, investors are again showing interest – but with more realistic expectations
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Special ReportProspects 2023: The inflation conundrum facing investors
Institutional investors would do well to include commodities and trend strategies to mitigate inflationary pressures
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Country ReportNordic region: Ilmarinen's roadmap for biodiversity change
Ilmarinen believes biodiversity and nature loss must be treated in the same way as climate change in investment activities
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Asset Class ReportsEquities – Is tracking error key to carbon reduction?
Passive investors may have to rethink their tracking error limits in the net-zero environment
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Country ReportNordic region: Danish pension funds on track to fund climate commitments
Denmark’s pension industry is calling for greater clarity from government on the timing of green projects and on the roles of different stakeholders
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Special ReportProspects 2023: How important are the carbon markets?
Carbon pricing is key to investment in green technology
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Asset Class ReportsEquities – Investing in the midst of Europe’s gloom
Healthcare and luxury brands are two sectors with potential to stand out in an otherwise gloomy macro environment
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Special ReportProspects 2023: ESG-driven divestments threaten energy transition
Investor support for miners is crucial to ensure a sufficient supply of metals for renewable technology
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Country ReportNordic region: Key features of Iceland's pension success story
The country’s high participation rate partly explains why the pension system is highly rated worldwide
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Special ReportProspects 2023: Does zero China make sense?
Many investors are avoiding the People’s Republic, but they would do well to look at the reality
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Country ReportNordic region: Norway's wealth fund reassesses investment strategy
Review recommends great flexibility for its investment managers
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Country ReportNordic region: Interview with Richard Gröttheim, AP's outgoing CEO
Richard Gröttheim, AP7’s outgoing CEO tells Pirkko Juntunen about a pension system that many countries are keen to learn from
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Opinion PiecesTime to rethink defined contribution pensions design
This year is shaping up to be the worst for investment returns since before the great financial crisis, according to IPE’s latest performance analysis of the leading European pension funds.
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Opinion PiecesCOP27: more questions than answers but reasons to hope
Despite the cynicism around COP27 last month, there were some potentially major developments for investors. Excitingly, a number of them address what’s often ignored in climate finance discussions: moving money.
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Opinion PiecesDutch pensions reform: A never ending story
In the last two years, nearly all my contributions for this section have been about the ongoing reform of the Dutch pension system, which will involve the transfer of defined-benefit (DB) accruals to a defined-contribution (DC) setting.
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FeaturesHow SFDR became the impact benchmark star
Impact is often defined by intentionality and additionality.
