Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 131
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Special Report
Taxation: How to soften the tax bite
Research shows tax management can boost returns from factor investment
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Features
PLSA Conference: On the brink of cost transparency
Trustees, consultants and other pension professionals gathered in Edinburgh in early March for the annual investment conference of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA).
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Features
Accounting matters: Limiting the scope
The IASB is looking at IAS 19. Will the project run into the sand?
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Opinion Pieces
Brussels People: Europe’s conservatives eye Africa
Describing himself as “the most senior elected Brit in Brussels” and speaking ahead of 29 March when he and the UK’s 72 other MEPs were set to relinquish their mandate in the European Parliament, Syed Kamall is keen to speak about matters other than Europe.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: The $20bn club shifts strategy
The funded status of US corporate defined benefit (DB) plans is getting better, thanks to investment gains and higher corporate bond interest rates that decrease liabilities.
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Manuel Adamini, Sean Flannery, Toby Heaps and Eloy Lindeijer
“Time to invite brown corporates to the green bond party”
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Interviews
How we run our money: APK Pensionskasse
Christian Böhm, CEO of Austria’s APK Pensionskasse, talks about the organisation’s blend of dynamic and long-term investment strategy
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Features
ESG: Code could boost engagement
Loopholes in the revised Stewardship Code under consultation in the UK may mean it fails to realise its full potential for raising engagement with investee companies.
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Interviews
Cheyne Capital Management: High-impact debt investor
The growth of non-bank lending in Europe is often mentioned as a trend that could radically transform the European economy. This remains to be seen, but if banks gradually give some of their dominance in the lending market, then firms such as Cheyne Capital Management stand to benefit.
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Features
Fixed income, rates, currencies: Markets take nervous turn
The reaction and aftermath to the US Federal Reserve’s dovish pivot appears to be more focused on the monetary policy news itself and the ‘fuel’ of easy money.
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Features
Ahead of the curve: Raising the bar on data privacy
Technology is central to how we live our everyday lives in the world today – it has enabled us to be more connected, more productive and more informed than ever before
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term matters: Lessons for Climate Action 100+
Fund management is a pretty opaque profession, and no aspect more so than the way investors hold the management of investee companies accountable
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Features
Pension fund consolidators enjoy strong growth
Efforts to increase scale and improve efficiencies across the European pension fund sector are gathering pace, new data shows – but schemes still face hurdles
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Features
ATP: A very Danish scandal
Fallout from scandals has left ATP without a chief executive and a tricky problem in choosing a successor to Christian Hyldahl
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Interviews
On the record: Delivering on our promise
Dmytro Sheludchenko of Sweden’s AP1 buffer fund explains how it constructs and manages its factor-investing portfolios
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Features
Beyond the annuity waiting room
Fintech is hard to escape in daily life – whether personal finance apps, crowdfunding investments or robo-advisers.
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Country Report
Deficits: All set for a bumpy ride
Choppy markets, economic uncertainity and Brexit are among the issues faced by UK sponsors and trustees
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Special Report
Pension tech for dummies
There is no shortage of new technologies that can improve retirement outcomes for pension fund members