Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 147
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Features
Accounting Matters: Surveying the surveys
Surveys? Who needs them? We do apparently. And when it comes to pensions accounting, we cannot get enough
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: What world are we creating by saving the world?
The focus of ESG investment has been moving towards the environmental over several years. Topics like green bonds, carbon indices, green ETFs, portfolio carbon footprinting and decarbonisation are making headway
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Opinion Pieces
Letter From Brussels: CMU urgency mounts
The race is on to complete the EU’s flagship Capital Markets Union project before the mandates of the Commission and Parliament elapse next year
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Insurers back new annuities rules
Insurance companies hope to play a greater role in 401(k) retirement savings plans if congress approves new rules on annuities
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Features
Research: Passive funds extend their reach
In the second article on a new study, Amin Rajan and Simon Klein argue that momentum towards passives is unlikely to ease during this decade, but that its composition will change
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Roger Urwin
“There will always be meaningful work for creative and skilful people. The new paradigm is people plus machine”
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Interviews
On the Record: Emerging Risks?
We asked chief investment officers of three of Sweden’s AP funds about how they view emerging market equities
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Interviews
How we run our money: USS
Bill Galvin (pictured left) and Guy Coughlan of the UK’s Universities Superannuation Scheme outline their measured approach to valuation to Joseph Mariathasan
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Features
Non-performing Loans: A market in full swing in Europe
A stockpile of nearly €780bn worth of non-performing loans weighs on the European economy
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Features
Asset Allocation: The summer doldrums
Summer doldrums have a tendency to mark their arrival with volatility. This year trade tensions, particularly between the US and China, and fears of escalation are flustering shallow, and less liquid, financial markets
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Special Report
Ireland: Building a 21st century pension system
The government is planning sweeping changes to the country’s entire pension system
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Features
Ahead Of The Curve: Resurgence of private capital
The tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis is an apposite time to examine how it changed the world for investors
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Features
Securities Services: Evolutionary pressures rise with new demands
Key challenges facing securities services include margin pressure, regulatory change and technological development
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: PGIM
David Hunt, the president and CEO of PGIM, draws an analogy between his role as the head of one of the world’s largest asset managers and that of a musical conductor
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Features
Government Bonds: Snapback risk alert
The Bank for International Settlements has warned bond yields could suddenly rise – a snapback could rapidly spread between bond markets
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Features
ESG: EC proposals under scrutiny
Last month brought to an end a key period of feedback on the European Commission’s (EC) sustainable finance proposals.
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Features
Interview: Baer Pettit, President of MSCI
Moving away from the shackles of being a pure index provider has created its own challenges for MSCI
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Special Report
Italy: New government prioritises public pension overhaul
Planned reform of first-pillar pensions will overturn some key changes introduced after the onset of the euro-zone crisis
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Special Report
Netherlands: Reform delayed
The four-party coalition government has postponed reform in the face of fierce criticism from the pensions sector
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Special Report
Norway: A bitter pill
New solvency regulations for pension funds have been sweetened by rules making it easier for them to invest in infrastructure