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[Full paper] What constitutes a first class pensions system? Adopting a global perspective of what defines a good retirement outcome download
In this paper, Chris Wagstaff takes a comprehensive look at pension systems worldwide; identifying those enduring principles with universal application that characterise an ideal pensions system and ultimately contribute to that all-important holy grail: generating a comfortable retirement for savers.
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[Summary] What constitutes a first class pensions system? Adopting a global perspective of what defines a good retirement outcome download
In this paper, Chris Wagstaff takes a comprehensive look at pension systems worldwide; identifying those enduring principles with universal application that characterise an ideal pensions system and ultimately contribute to that all-important holy grail: generating a comfortable retirement for savers.
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Mind the gap: Overcoming the cognitive barriers to saving for retirement download
In this paper, Chris Wagstaff considers how reasonably simple behavioural interventions can be used by policymakers, regulators and the pensions community to improve saving decisions.
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Behavioural Interventions Series: Paper Three Committed, Disengaged, Suspicious or Falsely Secure - What type of pension saver are you? download
Saving for retirement is for most a complex and inaccessible topic, which is perhaps why many people switch off rather than engage with it head-on.
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[Summary] Outnumbered but not outpaced – the bold change we need for female fund manager talent to break through download
While financial services has made some progress towards parity, asset management remains an outlier with only 7% female representation. Alison Jefferis argues that it’s time to embrace bold change to redress the balance as the industry is missing out on a deep pool of talent and resources.
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[Full paper] Outnumbered but not outpaced – the bold change we need for female fund manager talent to break through download
While financial services has made some progress towards parity, asset management remains an outlier with only 7% female representation.
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Tackling the ‘unknown unknowns’: how active managers manage unforeseen risks download
The best active managers never resort to blaming events seemingly outside of their control for poor performance. Rather, they work harder to overcome such hurdles, listening to a wide range of views, inviting challenge and working closely with others to refine their process so as to retain that all-important edge.
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French elections: what to expect should Le Pen prevail download
Mark Burgess looks at what a Le Pen presidency could mean for France, Europe and the broader global landscape and argues that the immediate reaction of markets is likely to be a spike in volatility for French assets due to the uncertainty of what is to come.
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Asset Allocation Monthly: March 2017 download
Global equity markets are near all-time highs, bond markets are relatively calm, and currency volatility is reasonably low.
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Asian fund passports’ slow progress download
While passports are likely to accelerate growth in the local fund industry, national interests are hindering their development.
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How China rules the waves download
FT investigation: Beijing has spent billions expanding its ports network to secure sea lanes and establish itself as a maritime power. Pakistan’s Arabian Sea port of Gwadar is perched on the world’s energy jugular. Sea lanes nearby carry most of China’s oil imports; any disruption could choke the world’s second-largest economy.
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Indonesia’s reforms gather momentum download
Jokowi’s administration is making progress and pleasing investors in a region troubled by political controversies. Expectations were high when Joko Widodo won Indonesia’s presidential election in 2014.
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Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect opens for traffic download
Offering a bridge for international investors accessing China’s ‘new economy’, policymakers are confident in Stock Connect’s future. China’s recent policy initiatives to attract international investors to its equities markets have struggled.
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Southeast Asia’s credit stability download
Credit rating agencies are optimistic that Southeast Asian countries will weather the fallout from developments in other regions. Southeast Asia appears vulnerable to several forces it can do little to control.
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Trump unnerves Asia download
The new US administration’s trade and foreign policy threatens to unsettle relations with Asia-Pacific nations. It is commonplace to say that the election of President Donald Trump has created uncertainty and nervousness among both US’s allies and its rivals.
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Trumponomics: What could go right? download
When it comes to policy, there are things that can go right and things that can go wrong – particularly so with Trumponomics.
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How should investors approach US infrastructure? download
Improving and expanding US infrastructure involves more than building roads and bridges.
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The emerging markets cloud receding download
As US rhetoric on trade protectionism softens, investors are focusing on emerging markets’ fundamental attractions once more as productivity improvements and fast-growing young populations are driving superior economic growth.
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Asset Allocation Monthly: May 2017 download
We have recently increased our equity rating to favour from neutral on the back of lower political risk and positive earnings developments.
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The UK’s demise is overstated download
UK equities reached all-time highs in 2017, but relative to world stocks (in US dollar terms) they were laggards.
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