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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Luke Hildyard
“The potential impact of climate change on investments should be considered at least on an annual basis”
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Long Term Matters: What my illness is teaching me about investment
When diagnosed with life-threatening conditions, we can be devastated, run from the diagnosis or embrace it and adapt. No prizes for guessing the smarter choice. The same goes for investment decision-makers today
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Long Term Matters: Investment can be a true profession
Carillion, the UK construction company that collapsed recently, reminds us, once again, that investment is yet far from being a credible profession
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Guest Viewpoint: Keith Ambachtsheer
“CFA curriculum material should become more future-oriented and address awkward topics”
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Long Term Matters: Time to pay heed to political risk
Speaking plainly but respectfully gets results more often than our ‘inner fence-sitter’ likes to acknowledge
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Guest Viewpoint: Will Goodhart, CFA UK
“The responsibility for making our profession more representative of the society we serve ultimately sits with all of us”
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Guest viewpoint: Greg McClymont
Pension systems everywhere are either struggling to manage the shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) or contemplating the journey
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Climate risk: Action on demand
We are winning the war against tobacco, at least in the developed world. Yet, we are losing the war to keep global warming to less than 2°C
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Guest Viewpoint: Sarah Keohane Williamson & Matthew Leatherman
“The selection of a benchmark is secondary to many other provisions for encouraging long-term behaviour”
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Long-Term Matters: Elephants in the sustainability room
Decent folk in the investment world are beginning to ask why our sector is so slow to change. Why can’t it function as a fit for purpose enabler of human prosperity?
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Guest Viewpoint: Robin Ellison
“The FCA has picked the wrong fight. We need a way to rate alternative investments”
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Long Term Matters: An Achilles’ heel for buybacks?
Investors are salivating over possible US corporate tax cuts. But evidence suggests this excitement is misplaced, at least from the perspective of the end beneficiaries
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Guest viewpoint: Peter Kraneveld
“The elephant graph explains why people are unhappy”
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Long Term Matters: Climate Change
Divestment advocates or traditional investors – which side will lead?
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Guest viewpoint: Stefan Lundbergh & Kerrin Rosenberg, Cardano
“At present, UK trustees do not have the right governance framework in place to be effective or accountable”
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Climate change: Incentives are the way forward
Generally missing from the discussion on climate change is an identification of the incentives that can drive change
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Guest Viewpoint: Avida International
“Fiduciary management has turned into a sophisticated exercise of managing increasingly complex investment value chains”
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Guest viewpoint: Francesco Briganti, EBWI Employee Benefits and Welfare Institute
It is widely known that EIOPA is studying the possibility of a new EU legal framework for a pan-European occupational defined contribution pension regime
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Long Term Matters: Disrupting CEO pay
The former CEO of the Investment Association, the trade body that represents UK investment managers, has made a disruptive proposal on CEO pay
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Guest Viewpoint: Philip Shier - Society of Actuaries in Ireland
One of the objectives of the European Commission in the revision of the IORP Directive was to enhance the information provided to prospective members, members and beneficiaries of IORPs
