Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 207
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Top 400: Trends in Asset Management - Time for reinvention
Asset managers face an existential crisis as they confront the end of a six-year rise in asset prices. What does the future hold for the industry? Christopher O’Dea investigates
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Brexit: Industry Views
How might a British exit from the European Union affect European institutional investors both inside and outside the UK? IPE asked experts across Europe for their views in the run-up to the 23 June British referendum. Here is a selection of their responses
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Asset Class Reports
Brexit – are Gilts a haven?
Joseph Mariathasan asks how the potential UK exit from the European Union would affect the sovereign debt markets
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Country Report
Denmark: Strength in size
Rachel Fixsen looks at the importance of co-operation and collaboration between Danish pension funds as the price of real estate and infrastructure investments continues to grow
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Features
Europe is already one economy
In the midst of the 2012 euro-zone crisis, American economist Fred Bergsten called the euro-zone a “half-built house”. In an outspoken article in the September/October 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine he argued that, to solve the crisis, the flawed institutional design of the euro-zone had to be improved.
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Norway: Accumulation key
Rachel Fixsen discusses the Government Pension Fund Norway with Lars Tronsgaard, deputy chief executive at its asset manager, Folketrygdfondet
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The Netherlands: Managing, not matching
Dutch schemes have switched to dynamic liability-driven investment strategies. But in the current economic environment portfolios are unlikely to shift, Leen Preesman finds
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Fundamentals: The long view
Economic debate tends to focus obsessively on short-term indicators while underestimating the importance of productivity and business investment, Daniel Ben-Ami explains
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Top 400: Investment Returns - The reality of new-world investing
The new world of ultra-low interest rates could be here to stay, so investors need to change the way they think about investing. Tapan Datta explains
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Asset Class Reports
Liquidity: The drought continues
Liquidity in the government bond markets has dried up since the global financial crisis of 2008-09. Do these parched markets characterise the new economic norm?
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Country Report
Norway: Seeking illiquidity
Åmund Lunde, chief executive of Olso Pensjonsforsikring, tells Rachel Fixsen how the fund has improved returns through an increased allocation to real estate and infrastructure
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The changing world of risk
Uncertain times on the horizon call for an adaptive toolkit in liability-driven investment, argues Paras Shah and Rik Merkx
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Integration: A work in progress
The European Union has made substantial progress towards economic integration but there is some way to go before it can achieve its full potential, writes Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Top 400: Debt Build-up - Lifeline is becoming a burden
Asset managers can no longer rely on central banks to shore-up the markets, according to Amin Rajan and Pascal Blanqué
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Asset Class Reports
US Treasuries: Safety in volume
US Treasuries, the ultimate safe financial instrument, are continuing to match investor demand even without the incentive of further rate hikes from the Federal Reserve
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Safer but less profitable
Europe’s banks no longer seem to face a systemic threat but their profits are meagre. David Turner reports
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Country Report
Finland: On cusp of reform
Finland is about to overhaul its pension system including a higher retirement age and the introduction of two new types of pension, writes Reeta Paakkinen
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Top 400: Changing times in China
The boom in China’s asset management industry should create opportunities for overseas investors, says Qin Xu
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The Capital Markets Union
The CMU is the latest EU initiative aimed at smoothing the way for integrated cross-border capital markets activity, writes Diego Valiante
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Is German economic thinking different?
Germany’s economic policy is undoubtedly coloured by its troubled historical experience but does this make it unique or is it a just a free-market outlook with a Germanic flavour? Daniel Ben-Ami investigates
