Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 195
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Country Report
Sector slams government proposals for regulation on Switzerland's 1e plans
An initial government proposal for a regulation on self-guided top-up pension plans for high earners has been slammed
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of selected EM equity funds to macro factors
The chart data shows the sensitivity of the five largest actively managed emerging markets equity funds to changes in macroeconomic factors: dollar trade-weighted index, global inflation, crude oil and global default spreads
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Special Report
Driving change in the DGF market
Diversified growth funds need to significantly improve their performance, according to Alice Lee
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Special Report
Adjusting to China’s syndrome
East Asian economies are heavily plugged in to the region’s powerhouse and feel the shocks when it slips, but these countries are finding ways to cope, writes Rodrigo Amaral
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Country Report
Swiss market liquidity: Anything left to drink?
Robert Cranston assesses liquidity trends in Swiss markets
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Special Report
Multi-asset funds: Diversity among the diversified
Multi-asset funds encompass a wide range of strategies. Brendan Maton and Charlotte Moore profile three such portfolios
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Country Report
Interview: Jacqueline Oh, Swiss Association for Responsible Investments
Jacqueline Oh, managing director of SVVK/ASIR, believes Swiss pension funds are lagging behind some of their European peers when it comes to sustainable investments. But they are catching up
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Special Report
The analytics arms race
As the multi-asset investing market grows, the race is on to provide the superior analytics needed to understand portfolio performance, says Sebastian Ceria
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Special Report
Risk parity post-Brexit
Despite the increase in risk in many asset classes from a year ago, risk parity funds have weathered this summer’s volatile markets
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FeaturesRegulatory monoculture and systemic risk
What is the connection between tropical fruit and systemic risk? In 1990, when East German citizens demonstrated for freedom and democracy, the banana became a potent symbol of the basic level of prosperity to which they aspired
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Features
UK's LPGS: Mixed reviews for final regulations
Guidance on new investment regulations for UK local government pension schemes (LPGS) has been welcomed for changing the course of asset pooling “for the better”
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Features
Regulation: Pension funds join fray on systemic risk
The consultation by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on its proposals to address structural vulnerabilities for asset management activities has set off a skirmish between those institutions wanting mandatory stress-tests to include pension and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), and those that do not.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: The lost decades
Evidence is emerging that the oil and gas sector knew about the risks of climate change for 40 years and buried this information. Had the world started decarbonising earlier, we could have done more to protect biodiversity and human life
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Endowment rethink
Should other university endowments follow the Yale model or is it time to rethink how they invest and take a simpler approach, such as an indexed 60/40 portfolio? That is the big question for NP ‘Narv’ Narvekar, who becomes the CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) in December.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Pan-EU private schemes for 2017?
Legislation proposing pan-EU personal pension products (PEPPs) could be tabled in 2017, according to the European Commission
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Interviews
On the Record: Are you rebuilding your emerging market portfolio?
Three pension funds - Ericsson pensionsstiftelse, Linde and Previp - discuss their emerging market exposure
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Features
Accounting: Just ignore the FRC
The UK government’s release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act has brought into question the Financial Reporting Council’s pronouncements on distributable profits. Stephen Bouvier explores the issue
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Unilever Dutch pension funds
Rob Kragten, CEO, and Michael Kaal, director of finance and risk at the Unilever Dutch pension funds, tell Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about risk management and collective defined contribution
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Features
Commodity prices on the rebound
After hitting a low earlier this year, are commodity prices on the brink of a sustained rise? Daniel Ben-Ami investigates
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Affiliated Managers Group
The business philosophy of AMG is a consistent one: grow revenue and cash earnings per share by taking stakes in best-in-class boutique asset management businesses. Repeat the exercise
