Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 114
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging market debt – ESG: Taking centre stage
ESG considerations are increasingly embodied in investment in emerging market debt
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Special Report
Risk metrics jigsaw
Moves to promote useful climate risk disclosure among companies are hampered by highly variable risk metrics and a lack of cohesive standards
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Country Report
Portugal: In search of higher yield
Asset allocation strategies remain largely unchanged and the search for yield broadens out
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Opinion Pieces
Systemic risk debate intensifies
The financial system is facing its greatest challenge since the 2018 financial crisis
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Country Report
Reform agenda
New reforms to the first and second-pillar are due to be debated in parliament next year and implemented by 2022
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Special Report
The buy-side: Greater focus on quality
There is growing demand for research that genuinely adds value
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Special Report
Brydon Review: Call for deeper, wider audits
UK review reveals stakeholders would like more information on company prospects and risks
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Country Report
Gulbenkian Foundation: Green credentials
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is realigning its portfolio to meet green requirements
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Opinion Pieces
What's in a pensions minister?
Last month, Jerry Moriarty, the chief executive of the Irish Association of Pension Funds, called on the country’s government to appoint a pensions minister
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Country Report
Returns: Do large pension funds achieve better results?
Smaller pension funds do not necessarily have lower returns, according to PPCmetrics
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Special Report
Credit Ratings: Good credit, bad behaviour?
Rating agencies and asset managers are starting to integrate ESG in bond portfolios
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Special Report
Industry viewpoints: Research post-MiFID II
How has research consumption changed since the unbundling of sell-side research costs from brokerage fees?
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Country Report
Discount rates: Stranger things
Negative interest rates are making Swiss pension funds more expensive
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Special Report
Artificial Intelligence: Solving the riddle with AI
Artificial intelligence is making it possible to glean better ESG information about companies
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Special Report
SDI Asset Owner Platform: ESG investing gets a platform lift
Two Dutch pension providers have launched a global platform to help asset owners invest in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
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Special Report
Investment Process: A recipe for confusion
The shift to ESG has inadvertently led to divergence of opinion over the best metrics to use
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Features
Tributes pour in for ‘founding father’ of investment consulting
Tim Gardener, the man credited with making visionary contributions to the UK investment consulting industry, died in October.
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Features
Spanish pension industry presents inaugural Aldecoa memorial awards
The Spanish pension fund industry gathered in Madrid last month to remember Jon Aldecoa, and to launch awards named after him.
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Opinion Pieces
Long Term Matters: Time to shit or get off the (ESG) pot
The ESG project is well beyond its childhood, even its teenage years. PRI has been going for 13 years and SRI activity pre-dated it by a decade.