All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 10
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Special ReportESG: The long quest for comparable data
A growing band of institutional investors and other financial actors is seeking better and more comparable inputs to financials statements in areas like carbon emissions
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Opinion PiecesBold thinking needed
Muted and constrained economic growth, continued low yields and quantitative easing, combined with a poor investment return outlook, loom over Europe’s pension sector.
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Special ReportRobeco Active Ownership: ‘Engagement’s not a one-off’
Carola van Lamoen, the head of active ownership at Robeco, talks to Liam Kennedy
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Opinion PiecesPensions in a hostile climate
Outside the realm of US public pension plans, where generous return assumptions and inflated discount rates are common, the medium and long-term outlook for asset classes is of serious importance to most pension funds.
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Opinion PiecesA Franco-German challenge
France and Germany are the two countries that stand out the most for their comprehensive state pension systems and for underdeveloped second-pillar framework
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InterviewsStrategically speaking: APG
If people ask Peter Branner why he moved from Sweden to the Netherlands to run the asset management arm of APG he might tell them that he is in effect chief investment officer for more than a quarter of the Dutch population
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Special ReportTop 1000 Pension Funds 2019: Asset growth in challenging times
The assets of the 1,000 largest European pension funds increased by 7% to €7.72trn in the last 12 months. This robust increase is set against a volatile backdrop in terms of asset prices and markets
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FeaturesRelative response to liquidity issues
Equity risk is a crucial portfolio exposure for pension funds and a key driver for long-term retirement outcomes for pension plans and their beneficiaries. Yet the structure of equity markets is in transition, which changes the way pension funds choose to allocate capital to them.
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Features
Editor's Notes: A radical ambition
Last month’s three doorstop reports from the EU’s 35-strong technical expert group (TEG) on sustainable finance have the potential to radically repurpose capital markets.
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FeaturesPolicies needed
The new European Commission will inherit a coherent but partially implemented Capital Markets Union (CMU) in the autumn. But much needs to be done to consolidate, refocus and re-energise this landmark constellation of policies and objectives.
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Montanaro Asset Management
As a Europe-focused small and mid-cap manager, the decision of London-based Montanaro Asset Management to launch its Better World fund, a global impact focused fund after a 27-year track record as a European house, was most certainly a change in strategic direction.
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Special ReportTop 400: Cultures change
Is asset management a tech business, a people business, or both? As the sector pushes new frontiers, much of the attention has been on vast sums the sector needs to invest in technology. This, combined with the burden of new regulation, is making investment management a more cost intensive business and driving M&A
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FeaturesConnecting climate dots
The transition to a low-carbon economy should lead to significant economic opportunity
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FeaturesTen years ago
Equity markets reached rock bottom in early March 2009, with the S&P 500 falling under 700 before embarking on a steep bull run that only really lost momentum last October
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News
Romania faces ‘last call’ to save second pillar
Industry fears nationalisation by the back door through government reforms
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FeaturesBeyond the annuity waiting room
Fintech is hard to escape in daily life – whether personal finance apps, crowdfunding investments or robo-advisers.
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Special ReportAPG: How a giant stays agile
APG’s Growth Factory takes a radical approach to tech disruption, following the vision of director Joep Beukers
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FeaturesInvestment self help
Many people start their new year with diets, exercise, or perhaps a dose of self-help. Bookshops are well stocked with guides to better working, living, thinking, sleeping and even breathing.
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FeaturesA glimpse into the future
For many people, being asked to solve their retirement planning problems is akin to being asked to build their own car
