Special Reports

In-depth reports on investing for our pension fund and asset management readers from our award-winning journalists.

 

Latest Special Reports

Forest

Natural capital special report: Getting to grips with the TNFD

March 2024 (magazine)

More than 100 financial institutions have formally committed to adopting the recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. Here’s how some of them are getting on so far

Imogen-Cothay

Risk transfer special report: Pension liabilities shift to insurers

February 2024 (magazine)

New players are waiting to enter the UK pension risk transfer market but this will depend on how accommodating Solvency UK will be

Fiduciary Management (NEW)

Fiduciary management special report: Has the UK peaked?

January 2024 (Magazine)

After years of growth throughout the 2010s, the number of fiduciary mandates has levelled off. Will trustees still opt for fiduciary now that insurance risk transfer is cheaper and consolidator funds have received the green light?  

IPE Dec 2023 Class Actions supplement cover

Class actions by European investors on the rise in the name of good governance and fiduciary duty

December 2023 (Magazine)

Deepwater Horizon, Volkswagen (Dieselgate), Wirecard, Silcon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse are recent, high-profile examples of corporate wrong doing resulting in losses for investors. As stewards of retirement savings and guardians of beneficiaries’ interests, it is only natural that pension funds should scrutinise the investments they are making – or outsourcing to asset managers to make – on their members’ behalf. This is a central plank of fiduciary duty.