Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 142
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds - Technology: The next generation
Advances in artificial technology and computing power are opening paths to new hedge funds strategies
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Special ReportTricky, but worthwhile
Help is at hand for institutional investors interested in pursuing, or deepening their efforts in impact investing
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Special ReportManager selection: Facing a difficult test
The resilience of private debt funds will be tested in the forthcoming downturn
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FeaturesCultivating judgement
One of the big challenges we face, both in the financial world and in everyday life, is how to overcome our biases
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Country ReportInvestment: The limits of expectations
How are Dutch funds doing against their long-term targets?
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Asset Class ReportsCryptocurrencies: A match made in heaven – or hell
Cryptocurrencies could offer handsome returns to hedge funds. Or they could be a disaster
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Special ReportMulti-asset strategies: New tools
Quantitative easing has distorted the fixed-income markets, resulting in an increased need to manage liquidity within credit strategies
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Special ReportPublic Markets: Hard to pin down
A mishmash of blurred definitions and terminology borrowed from ESG and sustainability is marring the progress of impact investing in public markets
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FeaturesChoose correctly on the private-debt journey
The short to medium-term outlook for private debt is complex to read, to say the least. There is mounting anxiety that the credit cycle may have run its course.
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Country Report
State pension age: Another hurdle for pensions reform
Unions mistrust politicians following ‘many broken promises’
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Special Report
Trade Finance: Funding tradewinds
Trade finance can offer an illiquid position in a volatile market, but its idiosyncratic nature can dissuade investors
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Special Report
GIIN: Setting the bar
The CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, an organisation dedicated to promoting impact investing, talks about the need for ‘baseline expectations’
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FeaturesTime for some good news on stewardship
Asset owners and managers can engage positively with the companies in which they invest and draw on the successes of previous interactions to ensure that change is permanent and for the better
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Country ReportAlmost solved...
Nicole Beuken, executive director of ABP, the largest pension fund in the Netherlands
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Special ReportAsset Allocation: Private credit is here to stay
Despite warnings of its imminent demise the asset class is here to stay
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Special ReportAP1 - A circular focus
Swedish buffer fund AP1 highlights resource efficiency as key to a sustainable investment strategy
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Country ReportKey Dynamics: A market overview
Alternatives, ESG adoption and further fund consolidation are the key trends highlighted by INDEFI
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Special ReportMarket Trends: Critical point
Private market lending now faces an important turning point
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Special Report
Actis: Thinking deep about measurement
Private markets investor Actis is taking impact measurement seriously
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FeaturesPension funds act as Nordic drama engulfs Swedbank
Sweden’s largest pension funds have been thrust into leading roles in a money-laundering scandal over the past few weeks, as Swedbank was raided by fraud investigators and forced to fire its CEO.
