Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 90
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Opinion PiecesCan superfunds be the silver bullet for DB woes?
Consolidation as a means of achieving better outcomes for pension schemes is a growing trend. This was highlighted in the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) 2018 White Paper on protecting defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.
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FeaturesPrivate Markets - Venture Capital: The case for VC and growth
European pension funds could significantly improve member retirement outcomes by allocating to venture capital and growth equity
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Special Report
Reporting: Leader and laggard
A comparison between Exxon Mobil Corporation’s and Equinor’s climate reporting shows marked differences
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Special ReportA new standard for carbon investing
The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials aims to improve disclosure of the greenhouse gas emissions of financial investments
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Special ReportApproaches to engagement
Investors’ approaches to engagement depend on their equity investment strategy
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Special Report
Growing demand for sustainability reporting
There is increasing awareness that sustainability is a key factor in investment decisions
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InterviewsOn the Record: Manager selection
IPE asked three institutional investors how manager selection has changed as a result of the restrictions imposed in response to COVID-19
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InterviewsHow we run our money: Lothian Pension Fund
Bruce Miller (pictured), CIO at the Lothian Pension Fund, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s inclination towards equities and internal management
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Country ReportSpain: COVID triggers reviews
Nothing could have prepared Spain for the turmoil of 2020
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Opinion PiecesLeading viewpoint: How great companies deliver purpose and profit
Shareholder value creation is good for companies, investors and the wider world
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InterviewsStrategically Speaking: State Street Global Advisors
In the quaint English game of cricket, there exists a concept that provides a good metaphor for the predicament facing the world in 2020.
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Special ReportFiduciary Management: Reshaping the pensions landscape
Mandatory tendering in the UK market has fuelled rapid growth in the fiduciary management industry
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Opinion PiecesLetter from Australia: Funding the future world
A handful of Australian superannuation funds are committing their members’ savings to the future world in terms of energy, water, technology and ideas. There will be successes and failures as ideas are developed and marketed.
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Opinion PiecesLetter from US: Gold investment returns to favour
“Negative real interest rates and unconventional monetary policies have been the catalyst of the new-found interest in gold,” says Jim McKee, a gold expert at Callan’s alternatives consulting group.
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FeaturesSmart phones: the key to African opportunity
Demographics are often the least appreciated of the long-term trends that investors consider, despite being perhaps the most important.
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FeaturesAccounting Matters: Who sets the standards?
You are what you know, the saying goes. And it goes without saying that the 211 comment letters the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) received on its Primary Financial Statements (PFS) project will represent some diverse viewpoints.
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FeaturesPerspective: Manager selection in a pandemic
The social distancing restrictions imposed to contain COVID-19 have made external asset manager selection more demanding, but investors are adapting
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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.
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FeaturesFixed Income, Rates, Currencies: Economy reaches tipping point
The global reflation trade, and with it the outlook for further dollar weakness, seems paused as speculation on the outcome of the imminent US presidential election diverts attention and has many retreating to neutral positions.
