Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 195
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: A diversification call
Gail Moss writes that French pension providers are looking to diversify their asset allocation to counter political and economic uncertainty
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Good governance boosts returns
Best practice in governance has been shown to produce above-average investment returns, say Manuel Ammann and Christian Ehmann
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Ircantec raises risk profile
Appointing an overlay manager is the corollary of a new strategic asset allocation at the €9.8bn French public sector scheme. Susanna Rust reports
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Chile: Chilean pensions under pressure
Chilean workers face an uncertain retirement future. Poor pension prospects have led to calls for nationalisation, says Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Crowding concerns
The rise in popularity of factor investing strategies and products raises questions about crowding, writes Paul Amery
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Building the car while driving it
There are many ways to measure and assess impact. Emma Cusworth reviews the importance of credible data in impact investment strategies
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Asset Allocation: When diversification fails
What do Swiss pension funds do when risk budgets are stretched and diversification has failed? Barbara Ottawa reports
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Private Markets: Changes in trends and attitudes
Anthony Harrington assesses the interaction between the supply of private market impact opportunities and investor attitudes towards them
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Factor investing embraces big data
Greater computing power means greater potential for factor investing, finds Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Fees: Clear on management costs
Ueli Mettler and Benita von Lindeiner examine the difficult question of costs in Switzerland’s second-pillar pension system
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PGGM: Impactful solutions
PGGM’s involvement in impact investing predates the UN Sustainable Development Goals, finds Rachel Fixsen
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Getting the blend right
Investors need to consider the interaction effects between different factors when constructing multi-factor portfolios, writes Paul Amery
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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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The growth has only just begun
Lynn Strongin Dodds sees signs pointing to a continuing rise in factor-based investing
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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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Full of EM promise
David Turner finds elements of factor investing that could make the strategy ideal for emerging markets
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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.
