Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 81
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Special ReportInvesting in the blue economy
Better ocean health is vital for addressing climate change. As fixed income investors, we’re seeing growing opportunities to make a difference.
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Special ReportSix best practices for carbon offsets
As investors and companies increasingly seek to address the risks of climate change, there is growing debate about the use of carbon offsets in achieving net-zero emissions. We think there’s room for a measure of offsets to achieve carbon neutrality, provided best-practices are followed.
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Special ReportClimate change risk metrics: The rising tide
The industry is now seeing an expansion in data-driven practices, with new climate datasets emerging and becoming mainstream. Climate change itself is a phenomenon comprised of many interlinked processes, each with their own risks and uncertainties. To cater to the growing demand for quantitative climate change risk metrics, vendors have begun to explicitly model climate change risk.
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Impact investing as a way to support the transition to a low carbon economy
The transition to a low carbon economy requires political will, a carrot-and-stick approach and the investment of significant resources. The public sector won’t be able to finance the transition alone. Governments shall continue to support market investments in companies and technologies providing solutions to environmental problems. We identify some attractive investment opportunities for impact investing.
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Special ReportMaking sense of ESG Data: How to Quantify SDG Contribution
Sustainability is one of the world’s most prevalent topics, and within asset management investors are accordingly shifting their portfolios towards environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) investing. As a result of this increased demand for ESG investing, various frameworks have emerged such as ESG rating, ESG metrics and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) impact. These frameworks are defined by a vast amount of data and specific methodologies in order to measure the exposure. This poses a challenge for investors due to the necessity to understand the complexity of sustainability while also dealing with the quantity of available data.
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Special ReportPGIM Fixed Income case study— filtering Asian Green Bonds through our framework
Issuers have myriad incentives—often including a lower cost of capital than a traditional bond—to apply the green label to their bond offerings. Yet, once filtered through our Green Bond Framework, it’s clear that many of these securities present the opportunity for only marginal environmental improvements or possibly none at all. Although this less-than-green issuance has occurred globally, it has become prominent in Asia as the size of the green bond market has grown and issuers’ ESG initiatives have continued to evolve from their early stages.
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InterviewsHow we run our money: PKA
Michael Nellemann Pedersen, CIO at PKA, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the Danish pension provider’s investment philosophy
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Opinion PiecesLetter from US: University endowments setting the pace on fossil fuel divestment
US university and college endowments control more than $600bn (€517bn) of investments. Their policies often influence the behaviour of public pensions. So it is interesting to see whether Harvard’s recent decision to end its investments in fossil fuels will be followed not only by other universities but also by retirement systems.
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FeaturesPerspective: Songs strike a chord
A welter of recent private market deals and artists’ catalogue sales have moved music income strategies into the mainstream
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Alex Edmans
Tariq Fancy, former chief investment officer for sustainable investing at BlackRock, claimed in a March 2021 USA Today op-ed that “Wall Street is greenwashing the financial world, making sustainable investing merely PR, which is a distraction from the problem of climate change”.
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FeaturesPensions Insider: Silence can be golden
In the fifth of a series of articles aimed at empowering trustees, our insider gives an example of when openess could exacerbate a problem
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FeaturesBriefing: UK fiduciary management
In 2019, the UK government introduced reforms to the investment consultancy and fiduciary management sector. That followed a review by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that identified competition problems.
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FeaturesBriefing: Dutch fiduciary management
A new pensions agreement between the Dutch cabinet and social partners last year requires nearly all Dutch pension funds to switch to a new defined contribution (DC) contract. It includes a lifecycle system and personal pension pots. The idea is to combine collective and individual components in one pension agreement.
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FeaturesBriefing: Insurance-linked securities
Hurricane Ida in late August and early September caused great damage to the southern coast of the US. Fortunately, for people in this area, insurance policies often cover destructions to their properties. Since covering such damage can lead to severe losses for insurance companies, they are keen to reinsure themselves.
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: The good, the bad and the ugly of momentum investing
Last year proved a remarkable one for momentum strategies. The tech giants that had done so well in recent years continued to outperform at the beginning of 2020, and the same high momentum names were further buoyed by investors’ preference for the digital over the physical economy with the onset of COVID-19.
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FeaturesResearch: A new understanding of investor satisfaction
Compelling statistics highlight the differences in the economic value of service quality in institutional markets
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InterviewsStrategically speaking: Finreon
Established 12 years ago as a spin-off from Switzerland’s renowned University of St Gallen, Finreon is a quant asset management specialist that styles itself as an investment adviser and a think tank. It has recently weighed into the debate on portfolio decarbonisation with a novel solution for listed equities.
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FeaturesFixed income, rates, currencies: Simmering tensions bubble up
After a reasonably peaceful summer – relative to the many previous volatile ones for capital markets, that is – simmering tensions are bubbling over, affecting many financial asset classes.
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