Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 197
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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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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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All investment impacts
Institutional investors looking at impact strategies should take a holistic view of their portfolio, argues Jane Ambachtsheer
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Case Studies: LPP and FRR
Charlotte Moore outlines how two pension funds are using factor-investing strategies
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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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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 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
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Features
Europe: The genie is out of the lamp
Times have changed since the Society for the German Language chose Alternativlos (without alternative) as its Unwort (literally ‘unword’ or ugliest word) of the year for 2010
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Pensions debate in camera
Germany is preoccupied with debates on pensions, while in Austria the issue is discussed behind closed doors, according to Barbara Ottawa
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Aba: DC and auto-enrolment, German style
Verena Menne and Klaus Stiefermann outline concerns about planned reforms to introduce defined contribution pensions to Germany
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IPE at 20: Time for retirement ‘SeLFIES’?
The potential global retirement crisis needs to be addressed by timely innovation. The longer governments wait, the higher the cost, argue Robert Merton and Arun Muralidhar
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Consultants: Changing roles
IPE asked pension consultants across Europe and beyond how they are responding to changes in the wider pension sector. Here is a selection of their views
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Asset Allocation: Defining Europe for investors
Investors looking to invest in European equities have to decide on what countries to include as well as exclude, as their choices could have significant impacts on portfolio performance, finds Joseph Mariathasan
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Fiduciary managers need more competition
The review of the UK’s asset management market by the FCA may or may not result in tighter regulation of investment advice. But the regulator would do well to continue focusing on investment consulting firms that offer fiduciary management services
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A long-awaited reform: Allianz Global Investors
The reform to introduce pure defined contribution plans is a huge opportunity. But if it does not succeed it may mark the beginning of mandatory corporate pensions
