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Market Commentary: Asset managers respond to pandemic
‘Business continuity plans are working as planned’
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NewsFCA: short-selling shouldn’t be blamed for recent market falls
Regulators emphasise open, orderly markets
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Dutch travel and hospitality schemes grant premium respite
Reiswerk and Horeca & CAtering grant a one-month breather
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Portuguese pension funds return 8.2% before COVID-19 hit
Schemes had an allocation to debt of up to 64% in 2019
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Opinion PiecesLong Term Matters: Investing in an age of pandemics
Pandemics are master classes in managing existential uncertainty. Being overwhelmed is ‘normal’. Here are seven actions that we can take as citizens and investment professionals. The focus is on the US and the UK: their governments are floundering. The unravelling in the US is dangerous for investors. Both the UK and the US are very responsive to the financial sector.
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Policymakers urged to keep EU financial markets open during pandemic
Industry associations call for joint statement to send signal, boost market confidence
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DNB: COVID-19 could affect financial sector for the next four years
Financial buffers are important
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Opinion PiecesInvesting in an age of pandemics
Pandemics are master classes in managing existential uncertainty. Being overwhelmed is ‘normal’. Here are seven actions that we can take as citizens and investment professionals. The focus is on the US and the UK: their governments are floundering. The unravelling in the US is dangerous for investors. Both the UK and the US are very responsive to the financial sector.
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Climate risk think tank develops COVID-19 stress test scenarios
To its knowledge they are the first stress-test scenarios for the pandemic
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NewsNBIM holds regular meetings to deal with COVID-19 situation
SWF’s likely losses apparently masked by plunge in Norwegian krone
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Dutch schemes see low volume of participant queries amid virus crisis
Too early to indicate what the implications for pensions would be
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NewsConsultants call for TPR 'clarity', 'pragmatism' given virus impacts
Estimated £40bn increase in FTSE 350 scheme deficits so far in Q1
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Opinion PiecesCoronavirus: Letter from Liam Kennedy, editorial director, IPE
Very few of our readers will not be affected in some way by the spread of coronavirus and COVID-19. For IPE and most of its editorial team based in the centre of London, the virus has curtailed travel and meetings. We have also taken the decision to postpone events, including ...
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ECB discloses fresh stimulus amid COVID-19 pandemic
Lack of explicit commitment from the bank to do ‘whatever it takes’
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NewsUK publishes RPI reform consultation as part of Budget
RPI runs at about one percentage point higher than CPI, currently at 2.7%, compared with 1.8% for CPI
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Asset owners take hit as oil price war escalates
‘The best protection, as ever, is to have been prepared before the panic’
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Dutch pensions’ funding ratios plunge further as COVID-19 fears spread
The long-term economic impact of the coronavirus is more important than current market valuations
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NewsPrivate finance gets its own COP26 agenda
Mark Carney sets out ‘road to Glasgow’ for private finance sector and regulators, governments
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NewsNN IP: Green bonds an ‘economic alternative’ to traditional bonds
As interest rates dropped further in 2019, the green bond index performed better than the aggregate index
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NewsDNB: Dutch investment institutions return 18% on average
The value of each euro invested 11 years ago has increased to €2.37 on average
