Latest Special Reports – Page 96
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Food for thought
Nina Röhrbein asks what pressure investors can put on food companies to improve their products and address health issues
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Playing the long game
With so many pressures to focus on the short term, consultants are having to craft more sophisticated investment advice – and in some cases, re-think business models – to help clients attain their long-term objectives. Gill Wadsworth reports
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Europe's Pension Consultants: The professionals
Gill Wadsworth looks at the success of independent trustees in the UK and plans to promote them in the Netherlands, and examines their working relationship with pension consultants
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Firmly in the advisory camp
Chris Ford tells Liam Kennedy why Towers Watson isn’t about to pitch itself as a fiduciary manager
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Sovereign debt in sights of ESG ratings
Nina Röhrbein finds out how the sovereign debt crisis is affecting countries’ ESG rating
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IPE at 15: Pension funds can shape the future of capitalism
Keith Ambachtsheer argues that pension funds are in a unique position to move capitalism in a direction that is more wealth-creating, more sustainable, less crisis-prone, and more legitimate than it is today
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IPE at 15: A future for investment management
Saker Nusseibeh and Zuhair Mohammed outline a vision for institutional managers
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IPE at 15: Winning the losers’ game
In an era where old certainties no longer hold, pension funds cannot afford to sit on the sidelines and let others do the heavy lifting, argues Amin Rajan
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Equity Sectors: The best form of defence
If you must hold equities, during volatile times it pays to be invested in the ‘safest’ businesses. But Martin Steward finds a changing world challenging old assumptions about which sectors contain these defensive stocks
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Equity Sectors: Sector success
Neptune Investment Management manages £6.5bn (€7.9bn) in almost 30 different equity strategies, pursuing a sector-driven philosophy. Martin Steward discussed the process with Douglas McDowell, head of client investment strategies
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Equity Sectors: Sitting ducks
Debt-ridden governments see them as cash cows and Fukushima has destroyed the nuclear consensus. Emma Cusworth wonders, are utilities still defensive, or are they now sitting ducks?
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Equity Sectors: Fat pipes cure lean profits
Emerging markets and cloud-based services could balance-out the telecom sector’s poor pricing power, finds Anthony Harrington
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Equity Sectors: Cashed-up and ready to grow
Institutional investors are underweight technology, but managers say the sector works well as a defensive play, finds Maha Khan Phillips
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Equity Sectors: Don’t speculate to accumulate
The sectors offer better long-term prospects than short-term ones, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Special ReportEquity Sectors: The evolution of sector risk
Ian Webster reveals that risk in European markets is currently being driven more by countries than sectors and that sector returns have become highly correlated. But a growing sector value spread may point to the next alpha opportunities
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Equity Sectors: Don’t bank on it
Insurers, exchanges, asset managers, emerging-market banks – even US banks – will continue to outperform as the herd deserts the European banking industry, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds
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Equity Sectors: On the mend
Investors should stop obsessing about ‘patent cliffs’ and recognise the healthcare opportunities in an ageing population and growing emerging wealth, writes Charlotte Moore
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Equity Sectors: All about the luxury brand
Charlotte Moore finds that the consumer sector is no longer all about staples and cyclicals, but rather brands and emerging markets
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The evolution of corporate reporting
Sustainability reporting has yet to establish its presence but integrated reporting is trying to gain a foothold within the environmental, social and governance (ESG) arena. Nina Röhrbein reports
