All Special Report articles – Page 41
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Markets & regions: How commodities strategies can help investors diversify their portfolios
In the current market environment, investors are looking for asset classes that can lower overall portfolio volatility without sacrificing returns
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China: No escaping China’s reach
China is influencing the investment world in numerous unexpected ways as a result of its large and growing economic weight
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Fixed income: Consistent growth in a changing landscape
Fixed income, an asset class that historically traded over the counter, is increasingly being traded on exchange through exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
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ESG: Responsible investing that reduces your carbon footprint
The development of ESG indices reflects growing interest in divesting out of fossil fuel investments to address the threat posed by global warming
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ESG: Building impact and values into portfolios
Exchange-traded funds that prioritise environmental, social and governance matters have grown exponentially in popularity over the past few years
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Factor investing & smart beta: What’s in a name?
Many smart beta ETFs are bought with the expectation of long-term market outperformance. The factors that many are based on have been proven both academically and empirically to produce excess returns
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Factor investing & smart beta: The smart beta (r)evolution
The ability of stocks with certain investment characteristics to outperform the market has been well understood and documented for decades. But options of how to implement this strategy were limited
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Special Report Asia: Game-changer
China’s growing clout in Asia is influencing investment strategies across the region
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German Asset Management: A larger appetite for ESG
How German asset managers are taking up the cudgels as demand for ESG approaches continues to grow
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Factor investing & smart beta: Advances in factor-based fixed income indices
Global fixed income investors have benefited from a long bull market that began in the early 1990s
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The market: M&A activity in European ETFs
The European ETF industry is still relatively youthful compared with its US counterpart, but already there have been significant mergers and acquisitions
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Implementation: The future is active
While passive ETFs continue to dominate flows, active ETFs are one of the factors that will drive further growth in the sector
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Implementation: Five myths about ETFs debunked
Over the years, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have attracted their fair share of criticism from market participants, regulators and investors
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Spezialfonds: Assets approach €1.5trn
Securities Spezialfonds assets are approaching a €1.5trn high water mark
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Portugal: Political uncertainty
The European Commission is concerned about the lack of political progress on making the pension system sustainable
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Italy: New government prioritises public pension overhaul
Planned reform of first-pillar pensions will overturn some key changes introduced after the onset of the euro-zone crisis
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France: Sprucing up supplementary savings
A new law seeks to boost the attractiveness of pension scheme savings vehicles
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Finland: Waiting for sustainability plan
Pension funds are awaiting news on how the European Commission’s sustainable finance action plan will be adopted in the country
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Switzerland: Filling the void
The Swiss government is trying to devise a reform for the first pillar while pension funds wait for an update on regulation