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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Investors and boards should collaborate strategically on sustainability
Collaborative support for legislative reforms, taxation frameworks, and public incentives is vital to create a level playing field for long-term value creation, says Gillian Secrett
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: IOSCO’s pre-hedging proposals fall short
The regulator’s umbrella body needs to deliver recommendations that clearly prohibit pre-hedging where dealers are in competition, says Emma Lokko
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: How a DB ‘surplus code’ could support economic growth
David Wrigley, partner at LCP, says supporting the appropriate release of surpluses could provide a shot in the arm to the UK economy
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Trump’s SEC pick points to reduced proxy power for shareholders
With Paul Atkins as chair, the US regulator can be expected to roll back policies supporting ESG goals, according to lawyers at Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP
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Opinion PiecesPreparedness: a new asset class?
Wars are famously costly. Most people would agree that preventing them is infinitely preferable to paying for them.
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Opinion PiecesThe private credit market needs careful monitoring
European institutional investors seem to be in a bind. Equities performed well this year, but market concentration remains at record levels and many investors expect a correction. Returns from bonds have been mostly positive, but that could change if inflation flares up again. The real estate market may be starting to recover, but it is early days, and the recovery may not be linear.
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Opinion PiecesEurope must prepare for a China after Xi Jinping
Whatever the big issues of the 21st century, whether climate change, the environment, restoring economies post-COVID, fighting poverty or ending the war in Ukraine, they are much easier to resolve if countries work together.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Stewardship deserves a return to first principles
As the UK’s Financial Reporting Council consults on updates to the country’s Stewardship Code, Hans-Christoph Hirt, trustee director of the Hermes Group Pension Scheme, says it’s time for the investment industry to have an open conversation about the objectives of stewardship
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Let’s talk about responsible investment due diligence
Eilidh Wagstaff, senior specialist for multi-asset in the Principles for Responsible Investment’s (PRI) investor guidance team, takes stock of what’s working and what isn’t in responsible investment due diligence
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: What if Trump wins?
International pensions expert Peter Kraneveld outlines a dark scenario
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Opinion PiecesFocus falls on finance for real-economy decarbonisation
This month’s COP29 climate summit will focus on finance
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Opinion PiecesEurope’s right wing can break pensions
Now that they hold power in several European countries, radical right-wing parties can make or break Europe’s pension systems.
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Opinion PiecesWill pensions save the savings and investments union?
One only needs to glance over the first page of the recent Draghi report on European competitiveness to find that the European economy is in crisis.
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Opinion PiecesIs it time to add a new layer to strategic asset allocation?
For years, strategic asset allocation (SAA) has been a cornerstone of investment for pension funds and other institutional investors. Is sustainability a missing ingredient?
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Opinion PiecesCan UK DC pension schemes plug the venture capital funding gap?
Europe is becoming an exciting place for tech start-ups, but they are receiving little support from European pension funds, which have eschewed venture capital since the bursting of the dotcom bubble in the late 1990s.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Pension funds must be at the centre of the UK investment debate
Long-term net zero delivery success demands a pro-investment, co-investment mindset from all sides
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Mapping a pathway to adequate retirement incomes for all
The UK is facing a looming retirement crisis. As many as 17 million people are not saving enough for later life.
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Opinion PiecesInvestors must work together to improve AI stewardship
While perhaps the same cannot be said about climate change, there seems to be a consensus about artificial intelligence (AI) in the United Nations General Assembly.
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Opinion PiecesEurope’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is an opportunity, not a threat
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is often mentioned as one of the examples of the European Commission’s excessive zeal when working to implement the Green Deal. It is singled out as an example of overregulation that negatively impacts the competitiveness of European corporations, creates barriers to accessing the EU market and is costly to implement.
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Opinion PiecesThe EU needs a few more AP7s
Europe sure does not have a savings problem – EU household savings amounted to €1.4trn in 2022 versus €840bn in the US. What Europe does have, though, is a glut of bank savings capital that serves as a double bind.
