All Special Report articles – Page 87
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Disarming pension funds
Nina Röhrbein finds investors staring down the barrel of a gun when it comes to their investments in controversial weapons
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Insurance-Linked Investments: Appetite for catastrophe
Investors cannot get enough of the catastrophe bond market, writes Charlotte Moore, but the potential for equilibrium, albeit at lower returns, is there
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Europe's Pension Consultants: The long game
The static long-term assumptions of past consulting methodologies are no longer fit for purpose. But Brendan Maton finds that developing new approaches is a tough intellectual and practical challenge
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Talking heads
IPE put some questions to pension consultants and fiduciary managers across Europe. Here is a selection of their views
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Filling the M&A gap
The high margins available from corporate activities appear to be a thing of the past, but Gerry O’Kane finds consultants benefiting instead from the increasing complexity of the pensions landscape
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Europe's Pension Consultants: How competent are consultants?
Trustees would never hire an unqualified actuary or lawyer. But Roger Brown warns that closer scrutiny might reveal that they are taking advice from an unqualified investment consultant
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Green listings
Nina Röhrbein reports on how stock exchanges apply pressure on their listed companies to be more sustainable
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: The seven-step programme
There is a clear route to making sure your portfolio is ‘future-proofed’ against climate change rather than a contributor to it, argues Raj Thamotheram. But, so far, very few investors are on it
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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: ‘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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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Pricing climate change
The physical and regulatory risks from climate change already exist. But Nina Röhrbein finds that the pricing signals remain suppressed by still-evolving regulatory frameworks and a lack of data
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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: ‘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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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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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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The ultimate frontier
Untapped riches tempt first movers to the newly-opening markets of Burma, reports Bee-Lin Ang, but the risks remain considerable
