All Opinion Pieces articles – Page 25
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Bob Collie
“With DC now globally dominant, the momentum that has been building is likely to continue”
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Opinion PiecesFactor strategies should be based on scientific consensus
Investors should take note of the debate taking place within the factor investing industry. On one side, are those who support a purist approach to the definition of factors, arguing that factor strategies should be built using factor proxies that undergo rigorous scientific tests. Scientific Beta, the organisation linked to EDHEC Business School, is a vocal supporter of this approach.
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Opinion PiecesCan we all be Canadian?
As we approach the 2020s, what have we learned about pension investing in the last 20 years?
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Opinion PiecesWhat's in a pensions minister?
Last month, Jerry Moriarty, the chief executive of the Irish Association of Pension Funds, called on the country’s government to appoint a pensions minister
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Kerrin Rosenberg
“It is crucial to remember that the focus on good governance extends to including illiquid and private investment”
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Spatial finance has a key role
The increasing amount of geospatial data can help foster sustainable finance
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: The quagmire of ethics
Assessing what should be considered ethical is more challenging than generally assumed
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Opinion PiecesLong Term Matters: Time to shit or get off the (ESG) pot
The ESG project is well beyond its childhood, even its teenage years. PRI has been going for 13 years and SRI activity pre-dated it by a decade.
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Opinion PiecesSystemic risk debate intensifies
The financial system is facing its greatest challenge since the 2018 financial crisis
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Investors commit to a net-zero future
The global climate emergency means investors must set tough decarbonisation targets. A new UN-convened investor alliance is doing just that
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Opinion PiecesBond bubble threatens emerging markets
Although the prospect of a trade war is the tail risk that has most worried fund managers since mid-2018, other potential perils look more threatening
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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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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: A quantitative approach to integrating ESG
Quant managers are mining ‘unstructured data’ as part of the search for the ESG factor
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Industry debates private equity role in 401(k) plans
Should those who invest through 401(k) retirement plans have greater access to private equity?
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Opinion PiecesTime to talk pensions
At a press briefing last month, Bill Galvin, chief executive of the UK’s £68bn (€77bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), emphasised the importance of improving its communication policy.
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Opinion PiecesStoring up future pain
Anyone who back in 2008 had accurately predicted what monetary policy would look like today would certainly have been regarded as unhinged.
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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 PiecesGuest viewpoint: Jennifer Choi & Brian Hoehn
“Principles 3.0 is intended to offer a road map to optimal partnerships in the private equity industry”
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Opinion PiecesLetter from The US: How boards can hurt pension plans
US state and local pension funds manage over $4trn (€3.6trn) in retirement assets for 20m active and retired plan members. But most of the funds are in bad financial shape.
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Opinion PiecesDo not let costs become an obsession
Our report this month on management and outsourcing discusses how pension funds must increasingly rely on external organisations to analyse their portfolios, particularly from a cost perspective.
