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EUROPE - The number of investors considering climate change policies as key to manager selection has doubled since 2007, but the actual integration of these policies into investment mandates has failed to take off, a report by the Institutional Investors...

Australian funds have begun to look at currency following a period of uncertainty. Rachel Alembakis looks at what new strategies are being adopted

Pension fund managers could have been forgiven for feeling like the worst had passed when the industry emerged from 2009, though it appears the glow of recovery was merely a reprieve.

The pensions industry in Australia eagerly awaits the publication of the Cooper Review. Rachel Alembakis looks at the potential consequences

AustralianSuper is one of the largest industry superannuation funds in Australia, with over 1.4 million members drawn from over 120,000 workplaces and in excess of A$30bn in funds under management. Rachel Alembakis speaks to its chief executive, Ian Silk...

The controversial directive passed a major hurdle towards coming to fruition last month, but despite being watered down, industry experts predict implementing the new rules will continue to be costly, as David Walker reports

Chairman of the Hedge Funds Standards Board Antonio Borges believes the EU's directive on alternative investment fund managers has come at a bad time, as David Walker reports

As Italy has largely ignored transition management, Giovanni Legorano looks at the reasons for this and asks if this is set to change in the near future

In recent years microfinance has steadily risen in significance. However, it is not on everyone's radar and questions remain about its sustainability, as Alison Swersky reports

There are now less than 30 months to the advent of automatic enrolment.