Technology
In-depth reporting on technology affecting the investments and pensions sector for our asset owner and asset management readers from IPE’s award-winning journalists.
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NewsSwedish funds agency plans launch of €2.7bn healthcare/biotech tender
FTN says comparative returns data for first tracker procurement shows premium pension reform set to deliver average 0.5% point higher returns
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NewsESMA raises concern over ESG funds’ exposure to corrections in tech valuations
Concerns about a so-called ‘AI-bubble’ have been mounting over recent months
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InterviewsListed equities: Beyond the Magnificent Seven, betting on the future of AI
America’s tech giants not only dominate equity indices; they are breaking records for capital expenditure on AI. How are European pension funds approaching their allocation to the Mag 7?
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Asset Class ReportsInvestors look beyond AI as China’s tech sector rallies
The impact of the AI capex boom on emerging market equities should not be underestimated – but is it sustainable?
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Opinion PiecesThe UK’s ‘deep tech’ sector: a paradox for policymakers and institutional investors
Deep tech now represents 31% of all UK venture funding – a threefold increase from a decade ago
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NewsNorway’s SWF manager sees increased risk of AI correction
GPFG returns 15.1% in 2025, with equities and unlisted renewable energy infrastructure leading gains
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NewsGermany launches €130bn fund to boost innovation and defence
Initial investments will focus on industrial and SMEs, start-ups and scale-ups, and the energy sector, particularly utilities
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NewsNorway SWF aims to halve manual processes through AI use
NBIM expects headcount to remain broadly stable: ‘AI acts as a force multiplier for our employees rather than a replacement,’ spokeswoman says
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Special ReportUS courts award more than $4.7bn as securities class actions intensify
Tech and heathcare sectors dominated US class action cases in 2024
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Special ReportJakob Thomae & Ben Caldecott: “There is growing evidence that a set of technologies powered by computers and silicon creates a new set of risks that may cause societies to break”
Every system has its limits – boundaries at which it breaks. We know this about us individually. We know this about families. And since 2009 and the work of a group of scientists around Johan Rockström, about the planet too.
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InterviewsClearstream Fund Services: “We are now the disruptor ourselves”
Clearstream Fund Services is poised to capitalise on the democratisation of private markets, as Philippe Seyll tells Joseph Mariathasan
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Special ReportThe climate dilemma: why mining and tech companies are proving complicated for net-zero investors
The mining industry is estimated to be directly responsible for 4-7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. When Scope 3 emissions, including those from coal-fired power generation, are included, that figure leaps to nearly 30%.
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NewsEuropean asset owners launch Scaleup Europe Fund with EU Commission
APG Asset Management, Fondazione Cariplo and Novo Holdings, among others, are founding investors in the new fund
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NewsFCA sets out roadmap to support tokenisation in asset management
Tokenisation has the potential to make fund management ‘more efficient, more transparent and more accessible to investors’, says regulator
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NewsBritish Business Bank helps raise £2bn towards UK technology, life sciences companies
The Bank co-invested £250m into the 33 companies
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AnalysisViewpoint: AI set to become a positive disruptor in healthcare
“Artificial intelligence is on the cusp of changing the world as we know it, not least in advancing medical care and aiding healthcare professionals”
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Special ReportThe index revolution: From benchmarking to bespoke solutions
Index providers shift their offering as a wholesale revolution of the industry gathers pace
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Special ReportWilshire Indexes wants to disrupt the status quo in the global index business
T he index industry has long been a comfortable oligopoly with the powerful brands of MSCI, FTSE Russell and S&P Dow Jones Indices controlling more than 80% of global index product revenue.
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Asset Class ReportsTrade finance: From ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’
A new joint venture tradeco between Pemberton and Santander aims to give investors access to working capital strategies, and to add a new tech-driven dimension to the age-old business of inventory financing
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NewsSweden’s FTN hopeful about re-launched green analysis tender
Failings around European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) were behind many rejections in cancelled procurement
