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S&P Dow Jones Indices unveils 22 new ESG benchmarks

S&P Dow Jones Indices unveils 22 new ESG benchmarks

May 24, 2019

Hermes hires Kevin Roche as director for private debt

May 24, 2019
Going Places: Hermes says the appointment will help the company strengthen and grow its private debt platform

Japan’s Chikyoren hires managers for new private equity mandates

May 23, 2019
Pension: BlueBay and Alternative Investment Capital will oversee the pension fund’s foreign and domestic mandates, respectively

Asian assets of Canada’s biggest pension fund grows almost 25%

May 23, 2019
Government Pension Funds: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s Asian assets account for almost one-quarter of the fund’s C$392 billion total assets

Analysis: For Japan’s economy, one swallow doesn’t make a summer

May 22, 2019
Analysis: An unexpected uptick in first-quarter growth looks unsustainable

MSCI appoints Tay Kim as head of client coverage for South Korea

May 22, 2019
Going Places: Ms. Kim will be responsible for building MSCI’s presence across all product lines in the country
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May 2019 Vol.24 No.5

Index me out

Back in 2016, Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine posed a question: are index funds communist? He could have asked more simply: are they dangerous? Or simply bogus? This isn’t to deny the merits of passive investing as part of a portfolio

Power of the three As

Agrowing number of startups have disrupted traditional industries in recent years. The noteworthy ones include ride hailing service providers in the transportation industry, where US-based Uber, China’s Didi Chuxing, Singapore-based Grab and Indonesia’s Gojek are changing the way people travel daily

IFRS 9, IFRS 17 and Solvency II: advice from Amundi

Asian accounting and regulation is taking a new step. Indeed, many countries in the region are in the process of putting in place new risk-based capital regulation similar to the European Solvency II, and also, new accounting standards: IFRS 9 and IFRS 17

Multi-trillion-dollar prospects

Green bonds are a relative novelty in the fixed income universe. However, they are already sufficiently visible for Maarten Biermans, head of sustainable capital markets at Rabobank, who recently warned of their potential implication in “greenwashing” exercises

Driven by rules and data

Indexing and the investment instruments based on it are topics of great interest for very good reason. In 2017, Pictet Asset Management issued a much-cited analysis that said index-tracking funds and passive management vehicles already controlled up to 40% of US stocks, and could own the entire US stock market by 2030 at the current growth rate

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