All Special Report articles – Page 38
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Special ReportEquity risk premium: The X factor
Although central to financial theory, the equity risk premium is hard to apply in practice
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Special ReportDiversification: Shelter from the storms
The benefits of diversification are not as clear-cut as investors often assume
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Netherlands: A new Dutch blueprint
Several pension experts contend Shell’s individual DC plan could provide a good model for the wider Dutch market
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Special ReportAustralia: Changing fortunes
A new landscape for Australia’s fast-growing super sector will evolve over the next five years
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Strategy Selection: Is it worth the risk?
Investors in multi-asset strategies must make sure they understand all the risks involved
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Special ReportPerspectives: Rising rates pose questions
The anticipated rise in interest rates urges pension funds to review their liability-management strategies
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Multi-Asset Funds: A flexible way to generate income
Multi-asset funds that take account of investor goals and time horizons could provide steady income
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Special ReportEuro-zone: The risks of reversal
The impact of monetary tightening is one of investors’ main concerns for 2019
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Multi-Asset Strategies: Worrying developments
Late-cycle dynamics, geopolitical tensions, trade wars and uncertainty surrounding Brexit are making investors jittery
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Special ReportBuilding investor resilience in a downturn
Investors need to look at varied downturn scenarios that take new risks into consideration
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UK In-house Management: Is it better in-house?
In-house asset management can deliver cost savings, control and overall value benefits but for complex or short-term strategies external management may offer better value for money
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Special Report‘Russians are convinced they were betrayed’
Professor Rainer Wedde of Wiesbaden Business School discusses the forces behind a decade of rising tensions between Russia and the West
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ATP: In-house benefits
ATP values being at the investing coal face as a learning experience
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AQR: Risk-parity reasoning
John Huss and Yao Hua Ooi, principals at AQR, explain the firm’s approach to risk parity
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AP2: Demanding but worthwhile
AP2’s in-sourcing journey has reduced costs and boosted its flexibility and transparency
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Walking the walk
In the past, fund managers would not necessarily spring to mind when thinking of ways to tackle climate change. Yet we are increasingly seeing more and more investors on the environmental frontline
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Low-carbon indices: Work in progress
Providers acknowledge low-carbon indices are imperfect, but argue they are an invaluable tool
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Making impact investing more investor-friendly
Impact investing – investing in a way that delivers both attractive financial returns and measurable social or environmental benefits – has come a long way in the last decade.
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In search of a gold standard
University research network seeks to cut through the noise of ESG data
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Investor Profile: Japan Government Pension Investment Fund
GPIF’s 100-year perspective places ESG at the heart of its world view
