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The role of insurers helping create sustainable pension systems
Ensuring a sustainable income in retirement is an enduringly knotty problem and one that continues to preoccupy countries’ pension systems and their asset manager partners. NEST, Sweden’s Fund Selection Agency and US asset manager Apollo reflect on the future of retirement.
Investors unpack regime-based portfolio thinking
Funds are operating in an extraordinary environment, with Scott Chan, chief investment officer of CalSTRS, saying he has never witnessed so many “large shifts stacked on top of the other” in his investment career. Amid the change, investors are increasingly shifting to a scenario and regime-based asset allocation.
Regulation will enhance sustainability
Integrating sustainability into investments will become much higher profile under new EU regulations that take effect this year. Coming into force over the course of 2021, the EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan represents one of the most impactful pieces of regulation to hit the investment management industry since MiFID II beefed up reporting and transparency in 2018. A core tenet of the plan is the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which will classify investment funds according to their sustainability credentials for the first time.
TIFF plays the long game in venture capital
The $9 billion asset manager for 500 US endowments and foundations, TIFF, is famed for its PE and venture capital allocation. Head of private markets Brendon Parry reflects on his priorities, including navigating the winners and losers of AI, and leaning into independent sponsors and relationships with the best managers.
Navigating the ESG Labyrinth
A guide to integrating sustainability across asset classes.
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The voice of business
The Future of the Corporation programme is the British Academy’s review of the role of business in society. It combines research from a range of academic disciplines with insight from senior business and policy leaders.
When states lose the ability to govern, populism rises
Stephen Kotkin, global geopolitical expert and Stanford academic, has warned that there is an “increasing governability challenge in high-income democracies” where government departments face declining capacity to perform core functions due to complex regulatory systems and bureaucratic tasks.
The US Inflation Reduction Act Is Driving Clean-Energy Investment One Year
Key Takeaways The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which marked its first anniversary in August, is driving investment in clean energy with a broad range of tax incentives. A total of 280 clean energy projects have been announced across 44 US states in the IRA’s first year, representing $282 billion of investment. Companies discussing the
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