Latest Special Reports – Page 39
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Special ReportTricky, but worthwhile
Help is at hand for institutional investors interested in pursuing, or deepening their efforts in impact investing
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Special ReportManager selection: Facing a difficult test
The resilience of private debt funds will be tested in the forthcoming downturn
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Special ReportMulti-asset strategies: New tools
Quantitative easing has distorted the fixed-income markets, resulting in an increased need to manage liquidity within credit strategies
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Special ReportPublic Markets: Hard to pin down
A mishmash of blurred definitions and terminology borrowed from ESG and sustainability is marring the progress of impact investing in public markets
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Trade Finance: Funding tradewinds
Trade finance can offer an illiquid position in a volatile market, but its idiosyncratic nature can dissuade investors
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GIIN: Setting the bar
The CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, an organisation dedicated to promoting impact investing, talks about the need for ‘baseline expectations’
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Special ReportAsset Allocation: Private credit is here to stay
Despite warnings of its imminent demise the asset class is here to stay
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Special ReportAP1 - A circular focus
Swedish buffer fund AP1 highlights resource efficiency as key to a sustainable investment strategy
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Special ReportMarket Trends: Critical point
Private market lending now faces an important turning point
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Actis: Thinking deep about measurement
Private markets investor Actis is taking impact measurement seriously
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Legal Framework: The lay of the law
A new project aims to find answers to some fundamental legal questions about investing, people and planet
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Special ReportAlignment: mind the gap
What role might market participants play to plug the SDG gap?
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Fiduciary Duty: Making the right impact
Impact funds range from those that seek to generate attractive returns while pursuing social objectives to those that focus solely on the social aims
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Asset Allocation: The future looks synthetic
A decade ago, synthetic ETFs were the pariahs of the asset management industry. Now, though, the tides are turning – with some sectors experiencing a revival in synthetic flows
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Social Impact Investing: Need for clear definitions
Measuring genuine social impact investing means disentangling it from conventional investing with elements of ESG
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Special ReportSocial Impact Finance: Bonds to help Asia’s ‘missing middle’ women
An initiative to raise money to provide low-cost finance for rural female entrepreneurs
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Special ReportThought Leadership: Investment in the age of geo-economics
Brexit, Trump, unprecedented Sino-American trade tensions: country risk and political considerations have moved to the fore and pension investors and asset managers alike have had to revise their investment strategies
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Special ReportAI and Manager Selection: Will your future consultant be a machine?
The world’s largest pension fund is exploring the use of AI to help it select asset managers and assets in which to invest
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Special ReportFactor investing: The paradox of low volatility
Despite scepticism by some investors, low-volatility investing does appear to work, especially during market downturns
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Special ReportESG: The missing dimension in risk management
Embedding ESG into the investment process will be in the long-term financial best interest of beneficiaries
