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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Reeves must acknowledge infrastructure challenges
The integration of illiquid asset classes into pension funds introduces a host of technological, operational and structural challenges that must be addressed
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: How trustees can protect against the ESG backlash
Jennifer Miles and Samuel Fulda, partner and associate at Eversheds Sutherland, respectively, outline how trustees can protect themselves in the event of anti-ESG litigation
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: How EU policymakers can help plug Europe’s pension gaps
Petra Hielkema, EIOPA’s chair, sets out how the authority and EU policymakers can build an ecosystem capable of plugging the substantial pension gaps Europe is facing
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Are sustainability standards a distraction?
The debate about standardised reporting of Scope 3 emissions loses sight of an important point about the need for judgment, says Iancu Daramus
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Time to push back against the ‘net zero agenda’
It is more useful to think of climate change and decarbonisation as a ‘hyperobject’, says Iancu Daramus
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: When the climate bill comes, how much should we tip?
The rhetoric around ‘tipping points’ is often misunderstood, says Iancu Daramus
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Climate scenarios – are they overcooked?
The progress made in reining in emissions is not just blah-blah-blah, says Iancu Daramus
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Opinion PiecesA mid-year stock take on ESG: talk is no longer cheap
It’s halftime for 2024, which offers a convenient reason to reflect on where we are with respect to ESG investing. I’d say the outlook is pretty good. That’s because, as global equity impact investor WHEB Asset Management says, the “ESG tourists – asset managers that stampeded into the sustainability market just a few years ago – are now packing their bags” as the depth and breadth of anti-greenwashing regulation bite.
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Opinion PiecesThe buyout pendulum starts to swing back to the DB norm
Vogue fashion magazine reports that flared trousers and mullets are back after a 50-year absence. They were not a good look even then, but fashion has its own drivers which do not necessarily involve good taste or even practicalities.
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Opinion PiecesWhy the green transition throws up workforce and pension challenges
Pensions are a hot topic in corporate Germany, where skills shortages and an ageing workforce have led to a war for talent, as well as a renaissance in occupational retirement provision in the fight for workforce skills.
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Opinion PiecesSwitzerland’s refreshing bottom-up approach to regulation contrasts favourably with the EU
Switzerland’s bottom-up approach to sustainable investing and ESG reporting rules seems to be travelling in the opposite direction to the path chosen by the EU.
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Opinion PiecesItaly needs a serious debate about pensions
Italian policymakers are bent on indulging the relatively small but influential minority of Italians that is nearing retirement, but lament that the statutory retirement age of 67 is too high. The reform efforts of past years have been towards reducing the retirement age or increasing flexibility in retirement. The resources employed towards supporting second-pillar pensions have been next to none.
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Opinion PiecesThe US perspective on a mixed proxy season
Opinion is divided on whether opposition to environmental and social considerations are increasing following the 2024 annual general meeting season in the US.
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Opinion PiecesAustralia's regulator cracks down on greenwashing
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has won its first greenwashing case in a civil action against Vanguard Investments.
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Opinion PiecesDevelopment banks need to be more transparent to mobilise private capital
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have caught the imagination of impact-oriented investors, as achieving them requires mobilisation of private capital on a massive scale. However, taking on the risks associated with many of the SDG-oriented investment goals is too much to bear for many private investors.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Investors urged to join call for global action on AMR
Currently responsible for more than one million deaths a year, antimicrobial resistance has been declared as one of the top 10 threats to human health
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: The cost of caution
In the world of sustainable finance policy, ‘billions to trillions’ has become the rallying cry of efforts to finance the UN’s SDGs and tackle climate change
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Opinion PiecesEuropean elections: the necessary policy leaps to secure citizens' pensions
This month sees European parliamentary elections and by autumn a new Commission will be in place. The political outcome and the composition of the new EC will influence the future shape of what still looks like quite an aspirational capital markets union (CMU) project.
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Opinion PiecesDespite their differences, pension funds should continue to act as bold corporate stewards
This year’s voting season leaves questions about the benefits of engaging with companies in the sectors that are slowest to embrace the climate transition.
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Opinion PiecesThe art and science of investor collaboration in the quest for effective stewardship
In the evolving landscape of sustainable investment strategies, the significance of engagement has become more pronounced in recent years. Traditionally seen as supplementary to investment processes, stewardship has transformed into an indispensable tool for achieving meaningful environmental and social change.
