Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 171
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Features
Auditing: Going, going, gone
Could a closer inspection of ‘going concern’ flag up corporate ill health sooner?
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Opinion PiecesLong Term Matters: Getting behind the stewardship bullshit on Carillion
Every so often things go so wrong that players are forced to come clean. Which is what has started to happen with Carillion. And it’s not a pretty sight
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Interviews
On the record: Do you believe in factors?
Sparinstitutens Pensionskassa (SPK), KBC Pensioenfonds, Migros Pensionskasse
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InterviewsHow we run our money: CEPB
Pierre Jameson, pictured, CIO of the Church of England Pensions Board, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s active and global investment strategy
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Country Report
Austria: Something completely different?
A new approach to reform may boost Pensionskassen, which lack broad appeal despite good returns
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Redington
When they started out in 2006, Redington’s founders claimed they wanted to “do for pensions what Jamie Oliver has done for school lunches”, referring to the popular British TV chef
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Features
Fixed income, rates, currencies: Trump fails to rattle markets
Geopolitics is certainly adding to the mix for increasing volatilities across markets, with trade news being at the top of minds
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Features
Ahead of the curve: An active view on active passive
Most active managers do fail to beat their indices. However, the key word here is ‘most’
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator: April 2018
The influx of pessimism in the prior survey has not carried over into this month
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Con Keating
It often takes an experienced Kremlinologist to divine the true message and meaning of European Commission missives, and the financing sustainable growth (FSG) action plan is no exception
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Opinion Pieces
Letter From Brussels: Default guarantee option dominates debate on PEPP
Europe’s asset management industry is lobbying against any mandatory guaranteed default option in the third-pillar PEPP proposal
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Gun stocks and passive funds
Could the massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school be the turning point in the debate about state pension funds’ investments in gun makers?
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Features
Sustainable finance: Threat or opportunity?
The European Commission has presented its action plan for sustainable finance – to mixed reviews from market participants
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FeaturesLGPS: Asset pools (almost) set for action
The UK’s 89 Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) have finalised their asset-pooling plans ready for this month’s deadline
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Special Report
Fixed income: Starting to catch up
Exchange-traded funds have made most of the running in fixed income
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FeaturesCDC: clumsy Dutch construction?
For some in the UK, collective defined contribution (CDC) pensions are a desirable Dutch import that should be applied more widely. Many are sceptical
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Country ReportDutch pensions: IT is a bottleneck
Antiquated IT systems stand in the way of an overhaul of Dutch pensions
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Country Report
UK pensions: Looking ahead to pensions white paper
Industry commentators do not expect radical changes to retirement legislation
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Special Report
Regulation: Stepping outside the comfort zone
Global non-financial trends will shape the regulatory agenda for years to come
