Industry Voice

ESG ratings are a helpful baseline to assess companies, but views on their ESG risks and opportunities can be honed – and sometimes corrected – through deeper research, trend analysis and meetings with company executives.

Julie Walker of Barnett Waddingham looks at the long-term opportunities and challenges facing the administration industry post-lockdown

Prices will likely rise next year—before picking up again

It is one thing to have a good investment idea, but quite another to extract the maximum potential from that idea and combine it with others to create an optimal portfolio. This is where portfolio construction comes in.

Schemes need to consider how to weight 2020 mortality data in their assumptions

Mark Jeavons of Aon says the many benefits to schemes of ESG considerations mean that they will play an important role in setting scheme strategies

Building a compliance plan and securring funding for advice should be at the top of the agenda

Cashflow-driven investing (CDI) is about meeting the outcome that matters most to pension schemes - being able to pay out liabilities as they fall due.