Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 165
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Special Report
Correlations: The shifting sands of correlation
How have major risk-factor correlations affected euro-denominated model portfolios?
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Asset Class Reports
India and China: A promising growth story
Hedge funds are increasing their presence in emerging markets
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Country Report
ATP: Domestic pressure
Denmark’s entrepreneur panel wants the country’s largest pension fund to do more to support the growth of young Danish companies
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Asset Class ReportsDixon Boardman: Ingeniously simple or a fool’s errand?
Can you replicate hedge fund skill through research and public information? This is a question that Optima Fund Management has asked itself – and answered in an unexpected way
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Special Report
Asset allocation: Forward planning
How are multi-asset fund managers positioning their portfolios?
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Country Report
Jesper Kirstein: Kirstein widens its Spektrum
Kirstein has formed a new asset-management company to increase client reach, writes Rachel Fixsen
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FeaturesDiary of an investor: A free lunch, or two
In common with many others, Wasserdicht’s international pension plans have dispensed with most of their traditional active equity allocations over the years
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Features
New pensions system is still a long way off for the Netherlands
2020 deadline looks less realistic amid delays and disagreements as to how new sytem should work
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Features
Global pension ranking: Europe’s pension systems fail to make A-grade in global index
Achieving the sought-after A-grade in Melbourne Mercer’s survey proves harder this year. Study flags sustainability issues in 11 countries’ pension systems across Europe
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Opinion Pieces
Climate risk: Action on demand
We are winning the war against tobacco, at least in the developed world. Yet, we are losing the war to keep global warming to less than 2°C
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FeaturesInterview: Alan Rubenstein, UK's Pension Protection Fund
When Alan Rubenstein sat down at his desk on his first day as CEO of the UK’s Pension Protection Fund (PPF) in 2009, his in-tray must have been overflowing
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Interviews
Focus Group: Risks get real
We asked a group of 30 pension funds with total assets of €293bn what risks the markets will face during 2018
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Greg McClymont
Pension systems everywhere are either struggling to manage the shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) or contemplating the journey
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Interviews
On the Record: Are you a hedge fund investor?
Merseyside Pension Fund, Stapi Lífeyrissjóður Iceland and Fondo Pensioni BNL BNP Paribas Italy on investing in hedge funds
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Features
Accounting: Resurrecting the past
Back in 2010, the IASB and its US counterpart, the FASB, published a document that proposed a re-think of financial statements
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InterviewsHow we run our money: Ericsson Pension Foundation
Christer Franzén , CIO of the Ericsson Pension Foundation, talks about the fund’s capital-preservation philosophy
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InterviewsBNP Paribas Asset Management: Marching orders
Frédéric Janbon inherited a complex multi boutique structure in 2015 when he moved from his position as special adviser to the board of BNP Paribas to become chief executive of the asset management business
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Features
Fixed income, rates, currencies: Bullish trend surprises markets
Few predicted that so soon after the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, the stock market would get back into its (post-financial crisis) bullish trend
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FeaturesAhead of the Curve: Steeling Japan’s governance
While Japan’s boardroom governance may be improving in general terms, it is obvious that best practices have not always permeated every level of the corporate hierarchy
