Latest Special Reports – Page 103
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Hedge fund paradox
Nina Röhrbein looks at how the few responsible hedge funds are reconciling their short-term outlook with the medium to long-term nature of ESG investing
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The Engaged Investor: The South African code
South Africa is on course to become the second country after the UK to publish a stewardship code. The Code for Responsible Investing by Institutional Investors in South Africa (CRISA) works on an apply-or-explain basis and consists of four principles.
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The Engaged Investor: When dialogue fails…
...exclusion prevails. Although in most cases a matter of last resort, negative screening among some pension funds is slowly on the rise, as Nina Röhrbein reports
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The Engaged Investor: The E and the S in the UK code
Praised for its response to governance issues, the UK Stewardship Code has come in for criticism over its handling of social and environmental risks, as Mike Scott reports
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The Engaged Investor: Credit for ESG
There are plenty of opportunities for shareholders to make their ESG views known to boards. Bondholders, however, have fewer chances, but they are applying some creativity. Lynn Strongin-Dodds reports
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The Engaged Investor: Philosophy… or strategy?
Martin Steward talks to activist investors about how they justify the costs and risks of engaged ownership
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The Engaged Investor: The paradoxes of stewardship
Discussions of stewardship often assume that engaged investing can be integrated with current investment practices. Paul Frentrop says that we need to think again
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The Engaged Investor: Asset managers under scrutiny
Louise Rouse of campaigning charity FairPensions takes a look at the public disclosurepractices on voting and engagement undertaken by UK asset managers
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Implementing ESG – the sustainable bank’s way
Some 75% of the core portfolios of KfW, Germany’s development bank, is managed sustainably, as Nina Röhrbein finds
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Hungary: Death by 1000 cuts
Thomas Escritt charts the Hungarian government’s highly controversial plans to nationalise the country’s supplementary pension funds
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Special ReportPoland: Ongoing pensions saga
Krystyna Krzyzak charts moves, countermoves and conflicting policies for reform of Poland’s supplementary pension system
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Turkey: Crossroads of change
Turkey has undergone a tremendous growth cycle transforming it from basketcase to poster boy. Baldwin Berges comments on the reasons and the potential consequences
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Special ReportClean India
Kirsteen Morrison identifies some showcase opportunities in renewable energy, water and agriculture in India
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Special ReportDiversity revealed
The financial crisis and recession across Europe has uncovered fundamental differences between CEE economies and markets. Krystyna Krzyzak untangles what we have learned
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Convergence to emergence
There is much diversity in emerging Europe’s debt markets, finds Matthew Craig
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PE hits CEE heights
Europe’s biggest LBO of 2009 was a CEE deal, reports Joseph Mariathasan. But it is difficult to see the region becoming a core emerging market private equity market like Asia
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Russia: The Wild East
By any measure, Russia is among the cheapest of the major emerging markets. Martin Delaney asks, is this an opportunity, or a sensible ‘wild east’ discount?
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Special ReportRussia: Untapped energy
Martin Delaney discovers that it is the growing middle class and its appetite to consume that drives Russian markets – not just oil and gas
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Fees: Just rewards
Unfairness, high levels, perverse incentives: fees are always guaranteed to raise temperatures. Martin Steward considers some imaginative proposals for alignment of interests
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Fees: Beta-zero fees
Bernd Scherer tells Martin Steward that asset managers should take a good look at – and possibly hedge – the market risk embedded in their fees. How might that change the relationship with clients?
