Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 170
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Special Report
Taxation: Changes ahead
What are the implications of the German Investment Tax Reform Law?
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Who bears the cost?
Sometimes I look back fondly on the simpler good old days.
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Features
LD gains a new lease of life
New holiday allowances fund will keep Denmark’s Lønmodtagernes Dyrtidsfond in operation for several extra decades
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Features
Universities scheme faces political scrutiny over deficit plans
Given the less-than-healthy state of the UK’s defined benefit pension schemes, it is no surprise that the largest such fund in the country also has the largest deficit
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Opinion Pieces
Long Term Matters: An Achilles’ heel for buybacks?
Investors are salivating over possible US corporate tax cuts. But evidence suggests this excitement is misplaced, at least from the perspective of the end beneficiaries
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Opinion Pieces
Letter From Brussels: Pension rights for posted workers
Discussions over the payment of social costs for workers from central and eastern European countries posted temporarily to wealthier EU countries are playing a major role in the attempt to update existing directives
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Tide turning against divestment
Will the movement in favour of divesting from fossil fuels slow down among US pension funds?
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Interviews
Focus Group: Spotlight on research costs
Pension funds have largely been absent from the debate about MiFID II and research costs. We asked a group of pension funds with total assets of over €330bn for their views
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Robin Ellison
“The FCA has picked the wrong fight. We need a way to rate alternative investments”
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your equity strategy?
Solidarietà Veneto, Pensioenfonds TNO and Nationwide Pension Fund share details about their equity exposure
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Features
Briefing: FRC under fire on company law
Has the UK FRC failed to enforce Section 172 of the Companies Act on directors’ duties?
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Features
Briefing: Proper plan design is way forward
International pension plans involve complex questions of structuring and compliance
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InterviewsHow we run our money: Joachim Schwind & Andreas Hilka
Joachim Schwind and Andreas Hilka, veterans of the German pension industry, tell Carlo Svaluto Moreolo how the country’s pension reform will change pension fund management
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Features
Private Equity: Buying in a seller’s market
Private equity has outperformed the public markets for the past five years and institutional investors have been ramping up allocations
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Features
China’s MSCI inclusion widens the assets horizon
The addition of China A-shares to the MSCI Emerging Market index is symbolically important for China and could lead to improvements in regulation and corporate governance
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Features
ESG: Hearing the voices of employees
The UK government hopes that strengthening the voice of employees in corporate governance arrangements will help restore public trust in business
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Robeco
Only a few weeks after the 1929 Wall Street crash, a group of seven Rotterdam businessmen set up the Rotterdamsch Beleggings Consortium, later shortened to Robeco
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Features
Asset Allocation: Economic growth holds steady
After a quieter summer for capital markets than in previous years, relieved risk assets remain popular. Economic growth has maintained a healthy pace with inflation yet to seriously surprise to the upside
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: The rise of the cloud corporates
Digitalisation has profound implications for how corporates do business. It affects the way goods or services are invented, produced, marketed and consumed
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator October 2017
Despite rising geopolitical tensions, there was no corresponding rise in negative sentiment in the most recent survey period. That does not mean there were no changes in sentiment trends; only that shifts were mostly slight
