Negative interest rates are back in the news, currently accounting for 11 per cent of global outstanding debt. Even a long time hold-out like the Bank of England has recently thrown in the towel by […]

The Covid-19 crisis has inflicted a triple whammy on the global economy: a demand shock, a supply shock and a financial shock. It has also forced a moment of reckoning for key central banks who […]

The financial meltdown sparked by Covid-19 is yet another nail in the coffin of the final-year salary scheme, where employers bear all retirement risks. Yields have plunged to record levels and will be kept there […]

“Our neglect of socio-environmental issues will shock future generations, just as our predecessors’ neglect of slavery shocks us today” said the chief investment officer at a French pension plan participating in the latest KPMG/CREATE report […]

Future-proofing their portfolios has been racing up investors’ agendas since the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s 2015 landmark speech Breaking the tragedy of the horizon. He categorised three risks from global warming: physical, such […]