Special Reports

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

 

Latest Special Reports

ESG supplement IPE November 2023

ESG Guide 2023: The future of sustainable finance

November 2023 (Magazine)

With or without the backlash against ESG in the US, big questions have been looming over the sustainable finance industry – like ‘is sustainable finance working?’. 

ETFs supplement IPE October 2023

ETFs Guide 2023: Innovation challenges concentration as investors spread their ETF wings

ETF Guide (2023)

ETFs’ steep upward trajectory continues, driven, as industry participants note, by their low cost, simplicity, and flexibility as an allocation tool. Globally the value of assets invested in ETFs, some $10.7trn (€10trn) at the end of August 2023, is 17.5% higher than at the same point in 2022, according to consultancy ETFGI. In Europe the increase was greater, at 20.8%, but from a much smaller base, with total investment in ETFs now standing at $1.7trn, with the lower take-up still being attributed to less favourable tax treatment.

Technology

AI special report: Could investment management be transformed?

October 2023 (Magazine)

While many foresee a variety of roles for artificial intelligence, critics believe it has a limited role in crucial asset management activities 

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Top 1000 Pension Funds 2023: Europe’s pensions absorb a €646bn loss

Top 1000 Pension Funds 2023

Last year saw a net reduction in the asset stock of European pension investment retirement pools of 6.77% over the previous year, according to IPE’s annual study of the leading 1,000 pension funds across the continent, marking a sea change for pensions.