Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 194
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Features
Transition problems
The travails of defined benefit pension schemes and insurers are well known as they seek to meet liabilities made in previous decades in today’s ultra-low-rate environment
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Country ReportPensions In Switzerland: Make or break
The referendum in September will decide the fate of the Swiss pension reform package. Barbara Ottawa analyses the first stages of the political campaigns leading up to the vote
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Country ReportPensions In France: Why make it simple?
French pension schemes are up in arms over plans for a decree they say imposes harmful constraints on how they manage their assets. Susanna Rust reports
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Special ReportSpecial Report: Investing for Impact
Although relatively new, impact investing is still the term that has been around the longest to describe investing with the explicit purpose of achieving positive non-financial impacts in addition to financial gain
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Special Report
Global Defined Contribution: Targeting the right glidepath
Christopher O’Dea finds defined contribution pension sponsors are increasingly looking for more flexibility in target-date funds to cope with changing worker demographics
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Special ReportSpecial Report Factor Investing: Meeting expectations
It is important to have realistic expectations about what factor investment can deliver
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Asset Class Reports
Investing In Private Equity: Concerns in a hot market
Joseph Mariathasan finds that high valuations in the private equity market means it can be an easier decision to sell than to buy
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Features
Creative destruction is needed
The current vogue for optimism about the prospects for the developed economies is overdone. There may be a slight cyclical upturn but its significance is limited
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Features
Agirc-Arrco: Towards a unified regime
A two-sided reform appears to have saved Agirc-Arrco, which is soon to become a unified regime, writes Gilles Pouzin. But the new national president will lead the direction of further reforms
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Special Report
China: China playing catch-up
Available figures suggest China’s enormous pension market could mean huge potential opportunities for insurers and asset managers, writes Florence Chong
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Asset Class Reports
Venture Capital: Handle with care
Venture capital is becoming more popular with investors but picking the right firms might not be easy, finds Joseph Mariathasan
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Special Report
The great factor debate
Daniel Ben-Ami examines a key question that is too often neglected: why does factor investing work?
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Country Report
Lombard Odier Pension Fund: A blueprint for multi-asset
Lombard Odier Pension Fund has developed an innovative multi-asset approach based on absolute return and diversification
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Special Report
A new frontier?
Everyone seems to want to talk about investing for impact these days. But a lack of a common understanding can make this difficult, according to Susanna Rust
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Features
A misunderstood shift
The system-level implications of shifting from defined benefit to defined contribution pensions systems could be dangerously misunderstood
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Ticino maintains aim
Pierre Spocci, director of the Istituto di Previdenza del Cantone Ticino, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the pension fund’s stable strategy
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Special ReportImpact Investing Market Statistics: Trends and snapshots
Data collected from 62 investors that completed the GIIN’s annual impact investor survey in each of the years 2014-2016, covering 2013-2015
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Special Report
Australia: Advice – better than any product
The Australian superannuation system is on the verge of creating cutting-edge income drawdown products. But many leading funds contend that advances in online advice will have a greater impact on outcomes. David Rowley reports
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Asset Class Reports
Sovereigns look for private boost
Joseph Mariathasan says the long-term goals of sovereign wealth funds mean they can tap the potential of private markets
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Special Report
A risk-reducing factor
Many factor investors use timing as a way to reduce risks, writes David Turner
