All Opinion articles – Page 18
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OpinionDC members must reassess passive approaches to achieve climate goals
AXA Investment Managers’ head of portfolio solutions for fixed income Sebastien Proffit explains why defined contribution investors should have a more active approach in their investments to be able to tackle climate risks.
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OpinionLiability-driven investing in a low-yield environment
Western Asset’s product specialist and economist, Michael Bazdarich, explains how liability-driven investments can be an effective tool for pension schemes, even in a low-yield environment.
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OpinionPPF statistics hint at a different future for DB schemes
As the health of UK defined benefit schemes improves, is the Pension Protection Fund still needed to solve a DB crisis, asks Broadstone’s technical director David Brooks.
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OpinionThe long road to net zero
Institutional investors need to plot their route to net zero, no matter how complex the journey, writes Jennifer Anderson, co-head of sustainable investment and environmental, social and governance at Lazard Asset Management.
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OpinionWhat should industry know about tomorrow’s pensioners?
As working lives are becoming increasingly heterogeneous and pension contribution levels are directly linked with housing conditions, Pensions Policy Institute head of policy research Daniela Silcock looks at potential solutions that could improve today’s savers retirement options.
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OpinionDon’t wait to be grey to be green
Charles Clarke, client communications lead at BNP Paribas Asset Management, details the challenges ahead for the pensions industry in its mission of switching the economy from stopping polluting to starting rebuilding.
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OpinionIs there anything under the bonnet of govt’s climate policy?
Whitehouse Communications’ Andrew Tarrant argues that the demand for finance, and not the supply, could make or break the government’s objective of meeting its ambitious climate change commitments.
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OpinionTop 5 considerations for trustees considering residual risk buyout
As pension trustees look to the future beyond Covid-19, many of them will be refocusing on the journey to buyout. Maria Rodia and Elaine He, of law firm CMS, outline the top five considerations trustees should keep in mind as they think about a residual risk buyout.
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OpinionPolicing police pensions
Royal London’s Moira Warner believes that transparency and clarity of communications are key in ensuring good outcomes regarding the introduction of transitional arrangements to police pensions.
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OpinionDon’t ‘do’ pensions? Think again…
Norton Rose Fulbright’s Claire O’Donnell and Julia Chirnside explain how corporates can prepare for the increased notification requirements to the Pensions Regulator that could have an impact for many merger and acquisition transactions.
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OpinionSchemes should prepare for new TPR contribution notice regime
Trustees and sponsors should consider how they would justify actions when faced with an intervention by the Pensions Regulator, which is consulting on new conditions to issue contribution notices, writes Chris Edwards-Earl, senior associate at Stephenson Harwood.
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OpinionThe answer to climate change is more primary investment
Thinking Ahead Institute’s co-head Tim Hodgson explains why asset owners should target primary investments, such as renewable energy and negative emissions technologies, to tackle climate change
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OpinionThe winding road to a straight answer
Stephen Lowe, group communications director at Just Group, would like to get some straight answers to the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry on why guidance is still not the norm when savers make use of pension freedoms.
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OpinionThe defined benefit trustee cost challenge
Isio director Iain McLellan details how defined benefit scheme trustees should spend their increasingly constricted budgets to ensure good governance, and why sponsors should invest in their own scheme’s trustee board.
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OpinionInvestment oversight – trustees should ‘mind the gap’
IC Select managing director Peter Dorward outlines how trustees need to increase the oversight of their investment consultants and fiduciary managers in a way to comply with new regulations.
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OpinionThere are many roads to Paris – let us not impose a single route to net-zero
There are several ways pension schemes can tackle their investments’ carbon emissions, but more significant action in the present is needed to address climate change, details Julius Pursaill, Cushon’s scheme strategist.
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OpinionNow is the time for schemes to turn attention to social risk factors
The pandemic has turned the attention of many, including pension funds, to social factors, but there are more challenging issues for trustees to address, writes Lauren Wilkinson, senior policy researcher at the Pensions Policy Institute.
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OpinionDriving the ESG agenda through fixed income
BlueBay Asset Management chief investment officer Mark Dowding details how pension schemes can drive the environmental, social and governance agenda through their investments in the bond market.
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OpinionPolicy changes needed to avoid generations of pension inadequacy
The government’s policy in regards to auto-enrolment and the money purchase annual allowance needs to be reviewed to avoid pension poverty, warns Renny Biggins, head of retirement at The Investing and Saving Alliance.
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OpinionLong-term funding: Are we on the right track?
River and Mercantile’s co-head of solutions, Ajeet Manjrekar, details a three-step plan that allows schemes to have a derisking framework consistent with regulatory expectations, while enabling effective decisions.