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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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Systemic risk debate intensifies
The financial system is facing its greatest challenge since the 2018 financial crisis
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Bond 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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Bold 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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Time 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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Storing 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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Pensions 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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Guest 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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Do 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.
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Long-term matters: How capitalists can save the Amazon from capitalism
When foundations and wealthy individuals launched their Rapid Response-Able Fund (RRAF) in spring 2020, commentators sneered at the “save the world” motivation while others said it would distract attention from the political changes that were needed.
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Greenwish: wishful thinking in the ESG world
Every so often I come across a paper which I think is a ‘must read’ and Duncan Austin’s ‘Greenwish: the wishful thinking undermining the ambition of sustainable business’* is one.
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Market paradoxes demand new ideas
It is the most fundamental premise of investing yet it is increasingly redundant: invest your money rather than hiding it under the mattress
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A Franco-German challenge
France and Germany are the two countries that stand out the most for their comprehensive state pension systems and for underdeveloped second-pillar framework
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Guest viewpoint: Tracy Blackwell, Pension Insurance Corporation
The financial services industry is one of the least trusted in the UK. The Purpose of Finance project aims to address issues of trust and reform
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An ageing Europe needs radical policy ideas
The Centre for Social Justice – a UK centre-right think tank – has proposed retirement policy reforms including raising the country’s state pension age to 75 by 2035
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China’s human rights abuses pose challenges
Investors who are serious about ESG should ask themselves about their China strategies
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Animal welfare: Probing the global meat complex
Everyone knows about ‘big oil’ and how much influence the global agribusiness sector has. But there is less awareness about the negative impacts of meat producers – the ‘global meat complex’.
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Guest viewpoint: Adam Matthews and John Howchin
“The Brumadinho dam tragedy causes us to question if we have created the conditions for a set of disasters”
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Guest viewpoint: Beat Zaugg
A striking indication of ESG’s importance in Switzerland is that Ueli Maurer, the country’s president, will be the keynote speaker at the Swiss Sustainable Finance annual conference in Bern
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Long-term matters: Exxon’s AGM – can investors learn from the slave trade?
English evangelical protestants allied with the Quakers initiated the campaign to abolish the UK slave trade in the early nineteenth century. Two centuries later, the Vatican has said that climate change is a “moral and religious imperative for humanity”. Will the fate of fossil fuel companies be defined by public, sovereign and religious investors? And can other investors watch from the sidelines?
