Latest Special Reports – Page 87
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Six degrees of capitalisation
Mark Campanale and Jeremy Leggett consider whether capital markets might be mis-pricing the risks attached to fossil-fuel stocks
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘A fiduciary duty’
Nina Röhrbein hears how forthcoming changes to asset allocation at the Environment Agency Pension Fund will build upon its long record in environment-sensitive investing
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘Control is a key to success’
Rachel Fixsen talks to Tapiola Pension CIO Hanna Hiidenpalo about integrating climate risk management into the insurer’s portfolio
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘Climate risk is only one among many factors’
Nina Röhrbein finds APG grappling with data-quality problems and the challenge of being a mega-fund with a sustainability objective
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘It’s precisely the “how” that matters’
ERAFP tells Rachel Fixsen how it applies its climate risk criteria across its whole portfolio
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Growth in the global greenhouse
Perhaps no industry is so exposed to weather and climate change as agriculture. Mike Scott outlines the potential impact and the resulting investment demands
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: A rising tide
There is plenty of water in the world – but useful water gets scarcer by the day. Mike Scott finds that managing the supply in world with a warming climate could be a compelling and diverse investment opportunity
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Sins of emission
The bottom has fallen out of it for now, but Elisabeth Jeffries finds the EU Emissions Trading Scheme becoming the model for others around the world
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Split over atoms
Nina Röhrbein finds few pension funds have specific policies on nuclear, and reports differing views among funds and managers
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Assessing the Arctic
Nina Röhrbein questions the oil industry’s claims to have cleaned up its act enough after Deepwater Horizon to be trusted in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
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Asia’s grand illusions
While the chance of outright conflict is at a long-time low, according to James Barnes, that doesn’t stop nationalistpopulism having deleterious economic effects
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Not a straight path
Joseph Mariathasan warns that, while there is much to be optimistic about in China, uncertainties abound – and its own markets may not be the best way to get exposure to its growth
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Moving ahead – despite the government
Investors were heartened by 2012’s burst of reform in India, but Joseph Mariathasan writes that this is an unexpected bonus in a market where the dynamism comes from the private sector
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Rough diamond or polished gem?
Indonesia has been a stellar performer among Asian markets over recent years, writes Bee-Lin Ang. But it has a history of volatility, and it could be about to deliver another dose
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The ultimate frontier
Untapped riches tempt first movers to the newly-opening markets of Burma, reports Bee-Lin Ang, but the risks remain considerable
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Absolute Asia
Asia hedge funds still run less money than before 2008, but they increasingly do so locally and in a broader range of strategies. Shirin Ismail and Tricia Sum survey how the industry is evolving to meet the needs of Asian and global institutional investors
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Asia reorientates
Sino-Japanese tensions over some tiny islands in the East China Sea are a salutary reminder that fast-growing Asia’s many geopolitical flashpoints can erupt suddenly and with meaningful economic impact. Daniel Ben-Ami delineates the risks – but finds them difficult to manage
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Outlook 2013: Euro Scenarios: Getting prepared
Ben Gunnee considers the back-office and trade infrastructure implications of a country exiting the euro
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Outlook 2013: Euro Scenarios:The disastrous and the unpalatable
Emma Du Haney offers a survey of the political landscape across the euro-zone and outlines both investment and operational risk-management priorities for the eventuality of a break-up
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Outlook 2013: Euro Scenarios: Open for business
Lynn Strongin Dodds finds most investment managers looking favourably on European equity markets once again
