All Special Report articles – Page 36
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AP1 - A circular focus
Swedish buffer fund AP1 highlights resource efficiency as key to a sustainable investment strategy
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Managing macro-longevity risk
An internal market for macro-longevity risk could provide an alternative to hedging tools
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Five key trends shaping manager selection
We asked consultants how the job of choosing asset managers is changing
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Factor investing: The paradox of low volatility
Despite scepticism by some investors, low-volatility investing does appear to work, especially during market downturns
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Strategy: Factor rotation hits record pace
Tilting between factors could work well in this environment
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Multi-factor ETFs: A recipe only as good as its ingredients
The performance of multi-factor ETF strategies reflect the choice of factors as well as portfolio construction
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ESG: The missing dimension in risk management
Embedding ESG into the investment process will be in the long-term financial best interest of beneficiaries
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Ways to improve DC pensions
International policy best practice holds lessons for UK defined contribution pensions
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Taxation: How to soften the tax bite
Research shows tax management can boost returns from factor investment
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Definitions: Contrasting approaches pose a predicament
Investors face a quandary as analytical tools depart from standard academic definitions of factors
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Applying rocket science to EMs
Factor investing strategies are increasingly being used in emerging market investing
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AI and Manager Selection: Will your future consultant be a machine?
The world’s largest pension fund is exploring the use of AI to help it select asset managers and assets in which to invest
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Thought Leadership: Investment in the age of geo-economics
Brexit, Trump, unprecedented Sino-American trade tensions: country risk and political considerations have moved to the fore and pension investors and asset managers alike have had to revise their investment strategies
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Investment Research: MiFIDII – a year of adjustments
Firms are under competitive pressures as the market for investment research takes shape
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Sterling scenarios
Sterling will remain mired in uncertainty as long as the conflict over Brexit is unresolved
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Pension tech for dummies
There is no shortage of new technologies that can improve retirement outcomes for pension fund members
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Data and processes: The IT diet
Sophisticated data and analytics processes should drive better control in investment functions
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UK Financial Reporting Council: On the radar
Reactions to the Kingman review on UK corporate reporting oversight
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Strategy: Pension funds confront FX risk
Investors are paying more attention to currency hedging strategies in the face of increased global risk
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Chris Sier: Data brings freedom
A UK fintech envoy talks about the potential for technology to empower investors