ESG Special Reports – Page 21
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End of the line for quants?
After facing pressure during the 2007 sub-prime crisis, David White reports on the future for the quantative approach to investing
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Special ReportThe inexorable shift to DC
The move away from DB is a trend throughout Europe but the speed at which it occurs and the models adopted differ from country to country, Rachel Fixsen finds
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Measuring a carbon footprint
Environmental information about investments is being used in portfolio analysis, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Signing up to carbon disclosure
The Carbon Disclosure Project is striving to make all pension funds aware of carbon issues. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Avoiding teenage growing pains
With their first flush of youth now over, many of the Danish pension funds created in the 1990s should be thinking about broadening their investment horizons beyond the home market. PensionDanmark is taking a lead in looking global. Brendan Maton spoke to Torben Möger Pedersen, the fund’s CEO
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Special ReportThe inexorable rise of India
This report was researched and compiled by Christopher Hindle and Marie Verpilleux of Global Business Reports
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Special ReportRestoring trust in credit rating agencies
Charles Cronin says that credit rating agencies must rebuild investors’ confidence in the way they rate structured products
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Special ReportBringing in the euro
Some Cypriot funds have been using this year’s euro accession to professionalise their portfolios, finds George Coats
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Special ReportOvercoming a blinkered mindset
Guy Fraser-Sampson argues that despite the attractions of private equity as an asset class, many pension funds will be tempted by sub-optimal strategies
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Special ReportPolling the placement agents
Iain Morse examines the role of placement agents in the private equity market
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Special ReportWhen does it stop being responsible?
IPE asked three pension funds in Italy, the Netherlands and Norway the same question: ‘What is your approach to exclusions and the screening of stocks?’ Here are their answers:
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Special ReportInvestors in people
Nina Röhrbein examines a fund that sees a strong correlation between human capital management, productivity, financial results and stock performance
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Special ReportChanges in security services
Outsourcing has become an important issue for master KAGs but, as Heather McKenzie finds, it works both ways
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Taking a view on the PERCO
France’s strong tradition of state-delivered pensions provision means the PERCO occupational pension saving approach will require a change in attitudes, say Jean Canel and Thierry de la Noue
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Ownership creates involvement
Stakeholders in defined benefit pension funds should redefine who exactly takes which risks, what constitutes solvency and who owns which part of it. Theo Kocken takes the baton in the first instalment in a series of discussion papers
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Mainstreaming responsible investment via sell side research: EAI three years on
The Enhanced Analytics Initiative was brought into being three years ago by institutional investors to promote and directly fund sell side research that takes account of long-term performance factors. Raj Thamotheram evaluates its progress
