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  • Fiona Stewart
    Special Report

    Development banks evolve

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Development banks are going beyond their traditional economic remit to embrace tackling climate change and meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

  • Venilia
    Opinion Pieces

    ‘Close contact’ needed amid pandemic

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Multiple lockdown restrictions have brought about a simpler way of working for some – remotely from home for most – but for institutional investors it also meant coming up with strategic models that could maintain the quality of asset managers’ due diligence – existing or potential.

  • Jerry Moriarty
    Country Report

    IAPF view: Positive aspects in a year of upheaval

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    There are signs that a significant movement towards pensions reform in Ireland could take place this year

  • Brian-Dillon
    Country Report

    High hopes for new ILP Act

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    The new types of funds should be the vehicle of choice for investment in private assets

  • Chris Rule
    Interviews

    How we run our money: Local Pensions Partnership

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Chris Rule (pictured), CEO of the £19.7bn Local Pensions Partnership (LPP), speaks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about building an in-house investment management outfit

  • The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) at Davos 2020
    Features

    Perspective: Targeting net zero

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Ambitious ‘net-zero’ carbon reduction goals are the latest in the evolution of asset owners’ engagement with climate change

  • Joseph Mariathasan
    Features

    The pandemic end-game

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Overcoming COVID-19 and ensuring no recurrence is proving to be a formidable challenge for the global economy. The worst may still lie ahead. Even health systems in developed markets are creaking at the seams with the second and third waves of the pandemic. More transmissible mutations of the virus are making the task even harder. 

  • Features

    Accounting Matters: Auditing the auditors

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    There is widespread consensus that the audit sector is not fulfilling its potential, and that previous attempts at reform have been ineffective. As the impact of high quality audit goes far beyond the boardroom, when pension funds rely on audited financial statements for their capital allocation decisions, it is ultimately their individual members’ capital that is at risk.

  • Bill Browder 1
    Features

    Long-term matters: Stop investing in autocracy

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Europeans observing the US ‘near miss’ constitutional crisis have a choice – be spectators or show responsibility

  • Early access genie escapes the bottle
    Opinion Pieces

    Letter from Australia: Early access genie escapes the bottle

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    In March 2020, as the Australian economy went into COVID-19 lockdown the government unlocked the national superannuation pool, seeking to ease the financial stress on individuals. 

  • Kevin McKechnie
    Opinion Pieces

    Letter from US: HSAs set to build on popularity

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    The Health Savings Account (HSA) is becoming increasingly popular as a retirement savings vehicle in the US. The new Biden presidency and the now Democrat controlled Congress are likely to accentuate this trend in 2021 and beyond.

  • David Neal
    Opinion Pieces

    Guest viewpoint: David Neal, IFM Investors

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    While COVID-19 continues to hit the global economy, governments are looking to infrastructure as a way to create future employment and sustain the eventual economic recovery

  • Active tends to underperform on average
    Features

    Briefing: Active ways to prosper in EMs

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    On the battlefield on which active managers fought their passive enemies for investors’ custom, there was one patch of higher ground that seemed easier to defend – emerging market equities.

  • Impact of MiFID II
    Features

    Briefing: The sum of all fears

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Three years on from the onset of MiFID II, market participants, governments and regulators are assessing its outcomes and considering adjustments. 

  • Tide turning for ESG fixed-income
    Features

    Briefing: Tide turning for ESG fixed-income

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    The supply of ESG-aligned bonds is increasingly underpinned by regulatory pressures and client demand for products targeting non-financial objectives. As the investable universe grows, so the number of funds and assets will increasingly find their way towards fixed-income ESG solutions. However, to strike the right balance between financial and non-financial returns investors should look for ESG-authentic leaders with good risk-return capabilities

  • Clive Gillmore
    Features

    Strategically Speaking: Mondrian Investment Partners

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    Clive Gillmore is a rarity nowadays among asset management CEOs in that he is keen to discuss what he sees as the difficult moral choices embodied in ESG investment

  • Lockdown shopping spree widens the US trade gap
    Features

    Fixed Income, Rates, Currencies: Same again in 2021?

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    The relief from the farewells to 2020, and welcoming a Brexit trade deal, has waned in the face of rising COVID-19 infection rates. There have also been further lockdowns across swathes of Northern Europe as well as in Japan, Thailand, and South Africa to name a few. The vaccine-generated light at the end of the tunnel which appeared last year, seems rather distant, and possibly dimmer too. 

  • Ian Toner (l) & Thomas Garrett
    Features

    Ahead of the curve: Has the period of painless diversification ended?

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    With interest rates falling to historical lows the reality of a new financial landscape is confronting investors. It is one where the typical relationships between assets has come into question. In addition, basic ideas around diversification and portfolio construction no longer seem to match with the available investment opportunities.  

  • Benchmark Risk - February 2021
    Features

    Qontigo Riskwatch - February 2021

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    * Data as of 31 December 2020.

  • Trade flow ratio - developed markets Feb 2021
    Features

    Virtu Global Tradewatch - February 2021

    February 2021 (Magazine)

    December 2020 data as of 13 January 2021