Industry Voice
Industry Voice Video: Climate call to action
In 2018 we wrote a letter, supported by 60 asset managers and owners, urging the oil industry to take more action on climate change. What was the outcome?
Industry Voice Video: The value of active engagement
Why we believe that actively engaging with companies can lead to better investment outcomes.
Q&A with QMA - Rethinking ESG Investing: Core-Satellite Framework
ESG (environmental, social, governance) investing has evolved considerably over the last two decades, from simple stock-exclusion strategies to more specialized thematic, engagement and impact-oriented solutions. Despite this strategic evolution, we believe...
Industry Voice: Gaining a trading edge in emerging-markets debt
In this Q&A, Mike O’Brien, Director of Global Trading, offers his insights into how the trading desk seeks to add alpha to the investment process.
Industry Voice: Economic policy or economic growth? What matters most for sovereign bond quality and performance? See Eaton Vance's latest report
In this paper, Marshall Stocker, Ph.D, CFA, explores the key drivers of sovereign bond ratings, spread performance and frequency of defaults, paying particular attention to the determinant role that economic policy plays.
Industry Voice: Flexible credit: all-weather allocation
Flexibility means having the freedom to invest strategically across fixed-income markets. In this paper, we look at how flexible strategies generate returns by allocating capital and risk across the credit spectrum.
Industry Voice: FTSE 350 pensions - Investment strategy
Deficit contributions and favourable asset returns in recent years have led to improved funding positions and our analysis suggests buying out scheme liabilities with an insurer is now a realistic medium-term goal for the majority of FTSE 350 companies...
Industry Voice: Is fiscal the new monetary?
As monetary policy seems almost exhausted, could fiscal easing kick-start growth and take us out of the low rate, low growth environment that we have been in for 10 years?
Partner Insight: Monitoring master trust investment performance
2018 was a testing year for master trust investment performance. Michael Ambery looks at how different strategies fared during a difficult 12 months
Partner Insight: An evolving market
Professional Pensions takes a look at how the master trust market is evolving in light of the authorisation regime and asks what the future could hold
Industry Voice: FTSE 350 pensions - Where are companies on the endgame journey?
Driven by an increase in corporate bond yields and the continuing payment of deficit contributions, 2018 was a positive year for the disclosed financial position of the FTSE 350's defined benefit (DB) schemes, with the aggregate deficit decreasing from...
Industry Voice: Regulatory pressure to bring forward the DB pensions endgame?
Corporates must place greater emphasis on their schemes' endgame target, says Barnett Waddingham.
Challenging the tomorrow mentality
In recent years there has been a sharp uptick in the number of UK DB pension scheme trustees implementing fiduciary arrangements. Indeed, this is not a coincidence given the current investment environment trustees are facing.
Five tactics for late-cycle investing
The current US economic expansion is now the longest in modern history, and investors globally will be seriously contemplating the end of the credit cycle.
Five potential disruptors to the global economy
Schemes must beware serial disruptors including China, populism and demographics, says PIMCO.
Pension consolidator vehicles: an insurer's perspective
In the second of a two-part series, Russell Lee (left) and Tom MacAulay (right) from Legal & General's Pension Risk Transfer business look at pension consolidation vehicles (PCVs) from an insurance perspective
Five things to consider when investing in ABS
Asset-backed securities are an under-utilised market for many pension funds but TwentyFour Asset Management partner Ben Hayward outlines what to look out for.
Ethics & alpha: Can investing responsibly enhance returns?
Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer at Aviva Investors, takes an in-depth look at the relationship between responsible investing and performance.
Director or dictator?
Industry Voice: Star CEOs are bringing into question what makes a good leader in a flatter, networked world. We explore what this means for the overall governance of companies
Three key takeaways from PIMCO's cyclical outlook: Flatlining at the new neutral
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