Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 182
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: Strange days in credit
Amar Reganti looks for alternative sources of capital gains and income streams within a moribund fixed-income asset class
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Interviews
Focus Group: Risk-factor strategies in favour
Over three-quarters of the respondents to this month’s Focus Group are allocated to strategies that employ risk-factor investing concepts, with four of these considering further allocations
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Looking the part
We at Wasserdicht Pension Funds have been using BIG Asset Management for what seems like an eternity. I have learned two things about BIG over the years
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Special Report
Gaining currency as a risk control
Lynn Strongin Dodds finds that worries about currency risk are leading investors to consider factor-based approach when investing in foreign exchange markets
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Features
Global Economy: Is growth optimism justified?
Daniel Ben-Ami finds that while there are signs that the global economy might be bouncing back, doubts are being raised by the weakness of the recovery
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Special Report
Listed Equity: A public role
New indices and ETFs apply impact investment to liquid equities. But corporate reporting and investor focus are central, according to Liam Kennedy
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Special Report
Listed Equity: The five tests of impact
Andrew Parry argues that five key tests should be applied to public market investments before they can be termed impact investments
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Special Report
Beat the bond benchmarks
Investors may be losing significant returns by failing to apply factor investing to bonds, says Barbara Petitt
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Special ReportGreen growth
High levels of green bond issuance have sparked investor interest and spawned funds and strategies, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Special Report
Beware of taking labels at face value
Sebastian Ceria and Melissa Brown warn that exchange-traded funds with similar labels can generate widely different returns because of the way their portfolios are constructed
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Special Report
All investment impacts
Institutional investors looking at impact strategies should take a holistic view of their portfolio, argues Jane Ambachtsheer
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Special Report
Case Studies: LPP and FRR
Charlotte Moore outlines how two pension funds are using factor-investing strategies
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Special Report
Interview: Amit Bouri - GIIN
Susanna Rust asks Amit Bouri, CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, about the opportunities and risks that come with impact investing’s growing popularity
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Special Report
Top-down versus bottom-up multi-factor approaches
Noël Amenc, Frédéric Ducoulombier, Felix Goltz and Sivagaminathan Sivasubramanian look at the pros and cons of top-down and bottom-up strategies for factor investing
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Features
German pensions: A new not-quite revolution
The current reforms risk repeating some of the mistakes of the Riester plan. Devolving responsibility to social partners for creating new sector schemes risks passing the buck
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Country Report
Pensions In Austria: Funds take real risk
Real assets such as infrastructure are on the radar for Austrian institutional investors, finds Barbara Ottawa
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Country ReportPensions In Germany: Draft law under discussion
Germany’s discussion on new pension vehicles without guarantees has revealed a much deeper challenge with promises, disappointments and misunderstandings, finds Barbara Ottawa
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Special ReportIPE at 20: Back to 1996 - four moments in pension investing
Fads and fashions ebb and flow, in the world of pension investment seemingly as much as any other. Balanced management is firmly out of favour. Fiduciary management is in. Yet both represent a different take on the outsourcing of investment
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Special Report
Special Report Consultants: A testing time
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is assessing whether a lack of competition among pension consultants is hurting UK pension schemes
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Asset Class ReportsInvesting In European Equities: Worrying times
Political uncertainty in Europe poses dangers and offers opportunities. Joseph Mariathasan investigates
