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SurveyTo avoid the worst climate change scenario, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions should be reduced drastically during the next decades.
More > 10 minutesThis paper employs administrative data from one of the largest plan providers in France to investigate the role of plan and default characteristics in affecting whether employees participate in the plan and whether they accept its default investment option.
More > 10 minutesAs a large number of investors turn to green assets, this raises questions about investors’ impact on the economy, in particular through their influence on firms’ valuations and corporate behaviour
More > 10 minutesIn this paper, we propose a new method to estimate nonfundamental demand shocks for green financial assets based on the arbitrage activity of exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
More > 10 minutesThis literature review discusses how to design a default life-cycle asset allocation for a defined contribution (DC) pension scheme.
More > 10 minutesThe coming of summer has also seen the return of extreme heatwaves, catastrophic flooding and devastating forest fires. The arrival of the COP26 could not be more timely given the need for a universal response to the climate crisis. Pension funds as major global asset owners have a key role to play in this response.
More > 10 minutesWe study the introduction of robo-advising on a large representative sample of Employees Saving Plans. The robo-advisor proposes a portfolio allocation and alerts investors if their allocation gets too far from the target, while investors remain free to follow or ignore the advices.
More > 10 minutesIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of discussion has focused on the worsening of the retirement prospects of savers around the world. Indeed, exceptional policies, such as the possibility of raiding retirement pots in advance and the low interest rate environment supported by dovish monetary policies, could potentially have dramatic impacts on the availability of pensions in the long run.
More > 10 minutesWe start by considering some of the key reasons behind the academic and industry interest in robo-advisors. We discuss how robo-advice could potentially address some fundamental problems in investors’ decision making as well as in traditional financial advice.
More > 10 minutesProfessional investors are Professional investors of the European Union, as defined as in European Directive 2004/39/EC dated 21 April 2004 on markets in financial instruments(MIFID) to investment services providers and any other professional of the financial industry,and as the case may be in each local regulation, and, as far as the offering in Switzerland is concerned, a Qualified Investor within the meaning of the provisions of the Swiss CollectiveInvestment Schemes Act of 23 June 2006 (CISA), the Swiss Collective Investment SchemesOrdinance of 22 November 2006 (CISO) and the FINMA’s Circular 08/8 on Public Advertising under the Collective Investment Schemes legislation of 20 November 2008
European Directive 2004/39/EC dated 21 April 2004 on markets in financial instruments (MIFID)
Private customers or retail investors, or to investors who do not comply with the definition of qualified investors as defined in the applicable legislation and regulation
as defined in the US Securities Act of 1933
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