Latest Special Reports – Page 5
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IPE Top 500 Asset Managers 2023 rankings
Asset managers in our listing are ranked by global assets under management and by the country of the main headquarters. Assets managed by these groups total €102.6trn (2022= €108.6trn)
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Top 120 European Institutional Managers 2023 rankings
Total non-group assets managed for all types of European institutional clients – pension funds, insurance companies, corporates, charities and foundations – for the leading 120 managers in this business segment. Total assets are €11.5trn (2022: €14.4trn)
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Special ReportGlobal asset management executive panel
15 leading asset management executives outline the challenges they see for the asset management industry and how they should be addressed
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Special ReportSpecial Report – Outlook: Europe and the world
Inflation may be losing momentum, thanks to vigorous central bank action, but with a recession on the horizon, it is hard to tell whether the next few months and years will see markets turn around and risk assets begin to perform again. For the time being, CIOs argue for selectivity in stock selection and generally agree that bonds have resumed their diversification role. The main article in our Outlook report features the views of influential CIOs and strategists on asset allocation for the next few years.
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Special ReportOutlook – Europe and the world: CIOs focus on bonds and quality stocks
With the prospect of weaker growth, volatility and higher inflation and rates, strategists argue for more selectivity in investments
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Special ReportOutlook – Europe and the world: US overtakes Europe in clean-energy production
Incentives package for US-based clean energy investments is seen by some as a threat to Europe’s industrial competitiveness
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Special ReportOutlook – Europe and the world: UK launches its own approach to green investment
The focus is on financial regulation rather than economic policy to drive decarbonisation
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Special ReportOutlook – Europe and the world: Ageing Europe puts strain on growth
The continent is the oldest in the world, with fast shrinking populations and lower fertility rates
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Special ReportBriefing – Regulation
In Frankfurt, EIOPA has responded to the European Commission’s call for technical advice in its stocktake on IORP II, the European framework for occupational pensions. EIOPA proposes widening the scope of IORP II in a pivot away from cross-border pensions and towards sustainability. A consultation process is open until 25 May.
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Special ReportManager selection: UK fiduciary management
Does fiduciary management still stack up as scheme funding improves?
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Special ReportRegulation: EIOPA takes stock of IORP II
Sustainability requirements in focus as EIOPA admits cross-border ‘failure’
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Special ReportManager selection: Brunel’s Helen Price on diversity and inclusion
Helen Price explains to Sophie Robinson-Tillett how the Asset Owner Diversity Charter will help schemes formulate standardised requests for information.
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Special ReportRegulation: EC continues sustainable investment regulation drive
The state of play for EU sustainable finance regulation
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Special ReportRegulation: IPE’s guide to pensions regulation in six key European countries
IPE’s guide to pensions regulation in six key European countries. Gail Moss reports
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Special ReportSpecial Report – Natural capital
Incorporating nature risk into financial analysis remains the - for now elusive - goal for investors, but this is hard given the lack of consensus on what information should be collected and how it should be presented. Such questions are the domain of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), the group founded in 2021. As well as striving for transparency and consistency in data disclosure, asset owners are also keen to deter inflated and exaggerated claims by asset managers on biodiversity impacts.
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Special ReportNatural capital: Industry turns its gaze on biodiversity
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures sets out to create a framework to help financial institutions and companies report their dependencies and impacts on nature
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Special ReportNatural capital: Investors press for impact
The focus is starting to shift from pure risk reporting to ensure that investments have a positive effect on declining biodiversity
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Special ReportNatural capital: Asset owners start to engage
Two new global initiatives are under way to help investors focus on issues such as deforestation, while some managers have been on track for a while
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Special ReportNatural capital: KLP hopes for a nature-positive economy
The asset manager’s head of responsible investments speaks to Sophie Robinson-Tillett about her optimism that the COP15 agreement will lead to regulatory change
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Special ReportNatural capital: New nature fund aims to halt loss of flora and fauna
Global Biodiversity Framework fund is targeting $200bn per year by 2030, but there is uncertainty about private sector participation
