All articles by Nina Röhrbein – Page 9
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News
ESG roundup: Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, Forest Footprint Disclosure, John Kay
GLOBAL – ESG used in investment selection for almost $14trn of managed assets worldwide.
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News
ESG roundup: Impax on agri-equities, MSCI on weather events
GLOBAL – Food equities offer better risk-adjusted returns than soft commodities, Impax says.
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ESG roundup: Actuarial Profession, Swiss Re, Sustainability Yearbook
GLOBAL – Actuaries must incorporate resource constraints into models, Actuarial Profession says.
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European stocks 'artificially cheap', says GAM
EUROPE – Investment manager says stocks undervalued merely for being domiciled in Europe.
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DC default funds need better risk management, says PIMCO
EUROPE – Current design of default plans likely to result in 'disappointing outcomes'.
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ESG roundup: ERAFP, IIGCC, EITI, Mercy Investment Services
GLOBAL – French civil servants pension fund signs up to climate change initiatives.
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Features
When west goes east
‘Go West’ was not just a 1990s song by the Pet Shop Boys. For decades, this was the goal of people trying to escape from life behind the Iron Curtain.
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Features
Different worlds
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Loit Linnupold, responsible for Swedbank’s Estonian pension fundsInfluenced by its linguistic ties with Finland, its financial links to the Baltic and Nordic regions, its Soviet past, its EU and euro membership, illiquid stock market and virtually no public debt, Estonia is a unique place in which to manage a pension portfolio.
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Country Report
Central & Eastern Europe: Incentives to listen
State involvement and issues with majority shareholders are the top corporate governance concerns in the CEE region. But the need to tap markets means companies have a greater incentive to listen to their investors, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Special Report
Assessing the Arctic
Nina Röhrbein questions the oil industry’s claims to have cleaned up its act enough after Deepwater Horizon to be trusted in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
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News
PRI 'must change' before asset managers can be held to account
GLOBAL – Aviva Investors says assessment structure of UN-backed principles must change.
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Experts call for covered bonds to support low-carbon economy
GLOBAL – Government subsidies are 'drying up', Climate Bonds Initiative warns.
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ESG roundup: Cambridge Associates, EU Corporate Governance and Company Law Action Plan
GLOBAL – Traditional risk/return approach best for evaluating social investments, report says.
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Pension funds have 'heads in sand' over climate risk
GLOBAL – Asset Owners Disclosure Projects says large number of schemes ignoring long-term risks.
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Asset owners using ESG for long-term risk management – survey
GLOBAL – Investors more 'aware' of economic impact of social, environmental crises.
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ESG roundup: Doha, Aviva Investors, Green Investment Bank, land grabs
GLOBAL – European investors in Doha disappointed by delay on climate finance agreement.
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ESG roundup: Reputational crises, Ofwat, Swiss Re on Hurricane Sandy
GLOBAL – 'Behavioural' crises have biggest short-term effect on share prices, report shows.
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Doha to serve as climate change 'bridge' between old, new systems
GLOBAL – Connie Hedegaard says summit could link developed, emerging countries' efforts.
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Country Report
Switzerland: To hedge or not to hedge
Nina Roehrbein finds pension funds facing a dilemma over their currency hedging strategy as the Swiss National Bank maintains its floor to the euro