All Guest Viewpoint articles – Page 8
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Principles for setting CEO pay
As we emerge from the AGM season, executive pay has, once again, been a lightning rod. Often pay is presented in simple headline numbers and narratives, but, in fact, pay is among the most complicated issues that percolate to board level. In my experience of sitting on boards for more than a decade, there are several principles that should guide the best global companies in setting executive pay.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Why ‘portfolio temperatures’ will be the investment measure of the future
Climate change has become one of the most pertinent issues facing society today.
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Opinion PiecesOECD: plans to mobilise institutional capital
The OECD is committed to facilitating development finance through structures that provide a commercial return
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Pension funds are key to the recovery from COVID-19
The unprecedented situation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that pension funds serve a key social function in supporting economies and citizens, ensuring benefits for old age income.
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Francesco Curto, DWS
The UK’s report into the Economics of Diversity, the Dasgupta review, highlights that our economic model is not sustainable
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Schemes must align climate goals with overall endgame objectives
Over the next 10 to 30 years, pension schemes face two major challenges: ensuring that member promises can be paid in full and on time and climate change
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Kerrie Waring, International Corporate Governance Network
This year, ICGN’s flagship Global Governance Principles will be revised as part of a three-year review. This year’s revision is set within a world facing systemic challenges: a global pandemic and climate change
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: PE must work towards measuring impact of sustainable investing
While EU regulation is a positive development, which will bring greater standardisation to ESG reporting, investors, organisations and regulators must aim to go further
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: David Neal, IFM Investors
While COVID-19 continues to hit the global economy, governments are looking to infrastructure as a way to create future employment and sustain the eventual economic recovery
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Making the case for SDG-aligned investing
Mirtha Kastrapeli, founder and CEO of Beyond Alpha, makes a case for shifting to SDG-based systems investing
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Long-term lenders ideally placed to drive ESG conversations
With the world facing considerable and pressing environmental and social problems, the investment world has a critical role to play in addressing issues such as climate change, inequality and discrimination
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Blended finance and impact
Delivering the 2030 Agenda in the COVID-19 era and beyond
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Jesper Kirstein
In recent months, the asset management industry has been dominated by adjustments inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article will try to look beyond this and address the question of where the asset management industry is moving in the medium to long term.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: The Norwegian Government Pension Fund is plain wrong!
The UN PRI is right to get real and dismiss those who sign up under false pretences – good riddance to hypocrisy
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Sir Ronald Cohen
We are on the threshold of another major shift in institutional portfolios. Impact transparency is changing the rules for both investors and businesses.
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Opinion PiecesThere is such thing as a (fossil) free lunch
A major historical fear has been that very strict exclusion or integration policies can lead to significant changes in the risk-return profile of portfolios
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: The tipping point for UK pension schemes
Schemes need to consider how to get to a secure level of funding, but also, the assets they will need to hold when they reach peak cashflows in order to remain fully funded
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Why Europe needs a real pan-European occupational vehicle
The revision to the Directive, known as IORP II, did not really facilitate cross-border activities. On the contrary, it seems that some EU member states have taken the implementation of the Directive as an opportunity to further complicate cross-border activities.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Mastering human rights risks – Why asset managers should act now
Sustainable investing has been a hot topic among investors for some time, with a particular focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ESG stocks and assets have outperformed the market. While the ’S’ has often been overlooked, recent trends are fuelling attention on the cornerstone ...
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Five reasons to invest in pensions technology
The world has changed exponentially in 2020, leading many multinationals to ask valid questions about how they can enhance their global operations.
