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IPE’s columnists and guest writers dig into the hot topics for the pensions and investment industries with thoughtful commentary and reaction from around the world
AI boom highlights a flawed bond market
Mark Versey, CEO of Aviva Investors, explains how AI-driven debt issuance is exposing passive bond investors to growing concentration risks and undermining traditional index diversification
The next EU budget must become a capital mobilisation strategy
Piotr Dmuchowski, CEO of PFR TFI and a board member of Sustainable Investment Forum Poland, says Europe’s next EU budget should use public funds to mobilise private capital for investment, resilience and competitiveness
Diversity Project to Inclusion in Finance – why our rebrand reflects a sharper ambition
The rebranding of the Diversity Project as Inclusion in Finance signals a sharper, more commercial focus, according to Ric van Weelden. As Europe undergoes its largest-ever transfer of investment responsibility, asset managers must reflect the people they serve
Viewpoint: For European investors, public versus private markets is the wrong question
Kamal Bhatia, president and CEO of Principal Asset Management, argues that investors should instead care about how different exposures interact with each other
Ten years from the Paris Agreement – what have we learned?
‘Democratic reauthorisation’ is key to reigniting lost impetus behind global climate transition, as is a fair distribution of the burdens and opportunities this entails
Why a credible SFDR framework needs more than category criteria
In his second regular column for IPE, Frédéric Ducoulombier of EDHEC Climate Institute argues that a credible categorisation-based SFDR system should require product manufacturers to substantiate how products deserve the category they claim
Exclusions: Time to move the clocks forward
Alexandra Danielsson at Canbury Insights and Carolyn Saunders at Dentons argue that with AI, asset owners can finally reopen exclusion policies that no longer stand up to scrutiny
Twenty years of evidence: Is it time to reconsider microfinance?
Stefan Beiner, partner at Swiss consultancy c-alm and former CIO of Publica, one of Switzerland’s largest pension funds, unpicks the investment benefits of microfinance
The rise of AI will test pension funds’ sense of stewardship
The IPO of Elon Musk’s SpaceX broke several records, from the listing volume of $75bn to the $1.77trn valuation at listing. It also broke some rules, particularly those regarding inclusion in equity indices.
Today’s pension debates have a nineties vibe
Pension policy was a hot political topic in Sweden in the 1990s – a debate that heralded a landmark policy to invest a small portion of workers’ contributions in capital markets. Some 30 years later, the same ideas are capturing the imaginations of European policymakers and think tanks.
UK aims to be a first mover in regulatory readiness and capital deployment to nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion, the energy process that powers the stars, was just three decades away, I was told when I left university four decades ago with a doctorate in physics. Unfortunately, it remained three decades away for the next 30 years.
Do not weaken Europe’s carbon market just when it starts to matter most
PGGM’s Lars Dijkstra and Andres van der Linden set out recommendations for upcoming EU Emissions Trading System review in the face of potentially damaging lobbying
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