Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 137
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Features
Accounting Matters: Full agenda for 2019
German DB plan sponsors might be busily acquainting themselves with new longevity tables, while in the UK there is really only one question on some accountants’ minds – GMP equalisation
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Opinion PiecesBrussels People – Lieve Wierinck: Building on Europe’s scientific base
Lieve Wierinck’s main political passion is ensuring the EU takes full practical advantage of Europe’s excellent scientific base
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FeaturesExit Interview: Peter Hansson
Peter Hansson, former CEO of Sparinstitutens Pensionskassa, decided to retire after 25 years with the pension fund for savings institutions in Sweden as new regulatory changes loom
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FeaturesResearch - Europe: Investors braced for an era of lower returns and higher volatility
In the second of three articles on a new survey, Pascal Blanque and Amin Rajan argue that pension investors are adapting to challenges that go beyond the realms of a maturing business cycle
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Interviews
On the Record: Adapting to change
As the equity markets begin 2019 in worse shape than last year, we asked three European pension funds how they conceive and execute their equity strategy, in order protect the portfolio
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InterviewsHow we run our money: PWRI
Xander den Uyl, chairman of PWRI, the Dutch fund for disabled workers, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about its particular approach to ESG
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FeaturesESG: France’s Article 173: taking stock
France’s ground-breaking reporting duty for institutional investors is being reassessed after a two-year test period
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FeaturesFixed income, rates, currencies: Hope but also fears for 2019
US domestic investors hold healthy stock market profits after a decade-long bull run Geopolitics on many fronts point to tumultuous times ahead
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: MiFID II increases asset risk
Attempts to improve transparency of research costs have unintentionally hit performance
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Sviatoslav Rosov, CFA Institute
The statistics on public market participation by corporations over the past two decades make grim reading. The US had 14% fewer exchange-listed firms in 2012 than in 1975
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Tages Group
Saying that Tages is an investor in alternative asset management businesses does not really do justice to its eclectic nature
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FeaturesLiabilities remain in focus
Given overall pressure on funding rates and falling asset markets, 2019 looks set to be a year where good governance and adaptability to external events will be crucial
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Country ReportSwitzerland: In need of a reformist zeal
The Swiss pension system needs reform but consent is needed in a federal referendum. Have politicians learnt from campaigning during the rejected Altervorsorge 2020 proposals?
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Special Report
Multi-Asset Strategies: Worrying developments
Late-cycle dynamics, geopolitical tensions, trade wars and uncertainty surrounding Brexit are making investors jittery
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Valuation vagaries
Mean reversion is useful in valuing stocks, but there are many unpredictable factors that can disrupt long-term assumptions
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Features
What next for US Treasuries?
A consensus on the direction of 10-year US Treasury rates is not obvious, because the answer reverts to a further question: whose consensus? Strategists, economists and other informed professionals have a particular view. The market itself, however, expresses a more diffuse and different opinion.
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Special ReportPerspectives: Rising rates pose questions
The anticipated rise in interest rates urges pension funds to review their liability-management strategies
