Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 181
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Special Report
ISIF: Double bottom line
Additionality, displacement and deadweight are key impact concepts for the Ireland Stategic Investment Fund, according to Rachel Fixsen
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Special Report
The growth has only just begun
Lynn Strongin Dodds sees signs pointing to a continuing rise in factor-based investing
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Special Report
McKnight Foundation: Sticking to impact
Christopher O’Dea speaks to the McKnight Foundation of Minnesota about its $200m commitment to impact investment strategies
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Special Report
Full of EM promise
David Turner finds elements of factor investing that could make the strategy ideal for emerging markets
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator May 2017
A key metric for interpreting manager expectations is the difference between those expecting a rise and those expecting a fall. Having data to analyse, trends, trend shifts and historical highs and lows helps make things clearer. While there are many themes worth noting, there is only one universally negative point, which is historically low and in a strong downtrend.
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FeaturesFrom Our Perspective: Pension roads to Rome
Around the beginning of the 2000s enthusiasm for pension funding was at a high. As Germany took measures to unwind the cosy ‘Rhineland capitalism’ cross-share-holdings, book reserve pension liabilities seemed like yesterday’s solution
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Analysis
Analysis: US pipeline controversy causes Nordic issues
The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has split opinion in the US and divided pension funds in the Nordic region.
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Analysis
Analysis: A German battle for consensus over DC plans
This year’s occupational pension conference hosted by the German daily newspaper Handelsblatt became an impromptu tribute, of sorts, to the influential pensions pioneer Bernhard Wiesner.
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FeaturesObituary: Bernhard Wiesner, pension pioneer
Bernhard Wiesner died in March aged 62 in a motorbike accident in Mallorca, his chosen retirement refuge.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: A warm reception for PEPP
In contrast to complaints that Brussels’s legislation burdens the financial sector, the European Commission may be gratified by the positive response to its flagship Capital Markets Union (CMU) programme.
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Risk transfer hots up
With interest rates rising, the US pension risk transfer market is expected to grow substantially
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Opinion Pieces
Guest viewpoint: Francesco Briganti, EBWI Employee Benefits and Welfare Institute
It is widely known that EIOPA is studying the possibility of a new EU legal framework for a pan-European occupational defined contribution pension regime
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Interviews
On the Record: Do you invest in real assets?
Three pension funds - CNPADC, KZVK-VKPB and Sampension - talk about their exposure to real assets
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Features
Discount Rates: An exercise of judgement
A pension fund sponsor in Ecuador has raised an important point about IAS 19 discount rates, reports Stephen Bouvier
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Features
Insolvency Insurance: Behind the promise
Insolvency insurance stands behind German and Swedish book-reserve pensions, but the concept has not really caught on elsewhere
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InterviewsHow we run our money: Varma
Reima Rytsölä, CIO of Finnish pension fund Varma, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo why it makes sense to keep an allocation to hedge funds
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Features
South Asia: Adjusting to new realities
The Indian subcontinent is adjusting to the realities of the new administration in Washington, writes Joseph Mariathasan
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Features
Portfolio Construction: Benefits in being ‘insurance-like’
Sorca Kelly-Scholte and Michael Buchenholz say that pension funds can build better portfolios by adopting strategies used by insurers
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Nordea Asset Management
Nordea has always been a multi-centric institution. Created from four entities across the Nordic countries, it straddles geographies and markets by design
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
With the eight anniversary of the risk asset rally passing in March, many have taken the opportunity to compare the longevity of this bull run to previous ones
