All Special Report articles – Page 29
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Special ReportUK auto-enrolment: Solutions needed for retirees
Auto-enrolment for employees has been a success. Why not take the same approach for retirees?
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Special ReportUK: More needs to be done to address post-retirement challenges
The industry has been slow to address the challenges posed by pension freedoms
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Special ReportUS recession: Slow and steady
Undramatic growth has characterised the longest economic expansion in US history. As trade tensions rise can the momentum be sustained?
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Special ReportEurope: Has stability returned?
Despite the gloomy assessments there is a positive case for European capital markets
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Special ReportInterview: Trading on discontent
Christian Bluth is a trade economist at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German foundation and think tank. IPE’s Daniel Ben-Ami talked to him about the increasingly contentious topic of international trade
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Special ReportESG: A new dawn
How can private equity firms avoid suspicions of greenwashing as the industry embraces ESG?
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Special ReportWhat is next for the CMU?
As the new European Commission takes office, Europe’s pensions and investment sectors share their views on the priorities for the further development of the Capital Markets Union
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Special ReportMacro matters: Central bank powers set to fade further
Central bankers were seen as all-powerful, all-knowing and all-guiding. The financial crisis has tarnished this reputation
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Special ReportGeopolitics: Assets for interesting times
What assets will insulate investors from the geopolitical risks of the future?
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Special Report2020 Investment Horizons: Emerging markets face contagion
The protracted period of ultra-low interest rates in the developed world could have a nasty knock-on effect on emerging market debt
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Special ReportRisk 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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Special ReportInvestment Research: The small-cap research squeeze
MiFID II is affecting smaller company research in unexcepted ways
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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 ReportIceland: From strategy to practice
Several factors are pushing Icelandic pension funds towards responsible investment
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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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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 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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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 ReportInvestment Process: A recipe for confusion
The shift to ESG has inadvertently led to divergence of opinion over the best metrics to use
