Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 223
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Absolutely no excuses
The big US proxy fights – at Chevron, Exxon and Southern Company – over resolutions to publish 2°C climate change stress tests happened in May. Did common sense prevail?
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Features
From Our Perspective: Under the thumb
Some occupational pensions and their regulatory systems were designed for another era. Increasingly, fixed-rate annual accrual or guarantee systems, like German and Swiss Pensionskassen, look like relics.
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Features
ESG: PGGM gets serious on carbon reduction
PGGM, asset manager for the €172bn Dutch healthcare pension fund PFZW, is to divest the scheme’s stakes in more than 200 mining, steel and energy companies in a bid to halve its investment portfolio’s carbon footprint.
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Features
Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global: Changes at the margins for oil giant
Falling inflows from oil revenue to Norway’s leviathan Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) will not change the NOK7.1trn (€762bn) sovereign wealth fund’s investment strategy or its need for diversification, according to the fund’s second in command.
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Features
UK Pensions Regulator: TPR bares its teeth
Since UK retailer BHS entered administration in April, leaving its two pension funds with a combined deficit of £571m (€743m) on a buyout basis, questions have been raised about the ability of the UK Pensions Regulator (TPR) to hold the industry to account.
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Features
Interview: Ros Altmann, UK Pensions Minister
Implementing long-term policy in a political world dominated by the short-term news cycle seems horrifyingly difficult. Unlike the primarily consensus-driven policy making of our European neighbours, UK public policy is frequently devised with more than half an eye to news headlines.
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Features
Interview: Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, National Pension Commission of Nigeria
Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, the head of Nigeria’s National Pension Commission tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about plans to extend pension provision in Africa’s most populous country
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Features
Research: An inventive retirement solution
Governments should issue bonds that encompass both the accumulation and decumulation phases for defined contribution participants, argues Arun Muralidhar
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Features
Research: Driving an energy transition
Jane Ambachtsheer discusses the outcome of an initiative to raise investor awareness of climate change and focus efforts on clean energy investment
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your liability-driven investment strategy?
Three pension funds - Blue Sky Group, HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Scheme and Pension Protection Fund - talk about their approach to LDI
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Features
Accounting: Play it again, Sam
The IFRS Foundation’s latest effectiveness review has drawn criticism. But you could be forgiven for thinking you have read it somewhere before
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FeaturesCommunication: Lessons from Scandinavia
The UK can learn from Scandinavia as it seeks to implement a pensions dashboard by 2019
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Stapi
Arne Vagn Olsen, CIO of Stapi, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the pension fund’s asset allocation strategy as the capital controls on Icelandic pension funds are gradually lifted
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Special Report
Top 400: A digital wake-up call
Investment firms have to compete with their conventional peers and fast-growing fintech start-ups when it comes to client communication, writes Catherine Doherty
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Features
Investment: Brexit proofing
Christopher O’Dea reports on the implications for institutional investors arising from the UK’s referendum on European Union membership
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Features
Currency hedging 2.0
Ugo Lancioni, Fredrik Repton and Nikola Petrovic argue that it is possible to make currency hedging more forward looking and better integrated into asset allocation
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Features
Convexity: the perfect trade?
Chris Brandt outlines how investors can make use of convexity in fixed income portfolios
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Features
Bond Strategy: Time to reallocate?
Nimisha Srivastava and Harald Eggerstedt call for a rethink of fixed-income investment in the face of the ECB’s asset purchase and QE programmes
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Features
Macro Matters: Beware the exit genie
Most Brexit speculation seems to be focused on consequences for the UK should it leave the EU, says Bob Swarup. But the result could well be the beginning of the end for the European project
