Latest Special Reports – Page 29
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Special ReportIndustry 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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Special ReportArtificial Intelligence: Solving the riddle with AI
Artificial intelligence is making it possible to glean better ESG information about companies
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Special ReportSDI 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 ReportInvestment 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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Special ReportRobeco Active Ownership: ‘Engagement’s not a one-off’
Carola van Lamoen, the head of active ownership at Robeco, talks to Liam Kennedy
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Special ReportESG Adoption: Big advances on the ESG front
A custodian’s view on how technology and a generational shift are powering the growth of ESG investment among European pension funds
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Special ReportMateriality: A new framework for ESG
A new materiality concept focuses on seeking investment value where the interests of shareholders and other stakeholders intersect
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Special ReportResearch: Europe has turned a corner
Asset managers must cater to the trend to deeper ESG investing to remain competitive Key points ESG investing in Europe has developed over more than three decades There are four broad categories of ESG investment – exclusion, integration, stewardship and impact Integration is the most widespread approach ...
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Special ReportIceland: From strategy to practice
Several factors are pushing Icelandic pension funds towards responsible investment
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Special ReportIndia: Still early days
The growing adoption and importance of ESG criteria among Indian firms could have implications for companies such as rice producers
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Mining the ESG vein
ESG used to be an optional extra in the mining industry but governments are starting to mandate minimum standards through legislation
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Special ReportMarket Update: The ETF boom continues
Around the world, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to grow in assets and importance, breaking records along the way.
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Special ReportMarket Update: The competitive battle intensifies
Despite the growth in European ETF assets, issuers are facing margin pressure caused by fee cuts.
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Market Update: The drum beats on: ETFs for the ongoing trade war
This time last year, we were looking at how trade relations between the US and China might play out and the best way to position a portfolio – especially in terms of sectors – according to which scenario an investor thought was most likely.
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Special ReportMarket Update: Can European ETF assets double again?
Earlier this year, ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe celebrated a record 55 consecutive months of net inflows, only 19 years after the first ETFs in Europe were launched.
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Special ReportLiquidity & Implementation: Woodford fallout renews focus on ETF risks
The recent suspension of redemptions from Neil Woodford’s Equity Income fund is a cautionary tale and one that has further sharpened the spotlight on the liquidity of mutual funds, a category that includes exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
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Special ReportLiquidity & Implementation: Liquid beta sleeves: bespoke solutions with index building blocks
Liquidity in a pension fund context can mean a number of things. As long-term investors, pension funds can harvest the illiquidity premia by investing in private markets, which they have been doing increasingly over the past 10 years.1 On the other hand, pension funds are required to meet their liabilities and so need enough liquidity to ensure the payment of benefits to members.
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Special ReportLiquidity & Implementation: Will all mutual funds become ETFs?
It took almost five years, but the US regulator still surprised many in the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry when it gave preliminary approval to Precidian Investments’ ActiveShares in May.
