Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 208
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of global inflation bond funds to macro factors
The data shows the sensitivity of global inflation-linked bond funds to changes in macroeconomic factors: global default spreads, global term spreads, global dividend yields and global interest rates.
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Country Report
Finland: Overseas returns
Reeta Paakkinen writes that Finnish pension funds are looking to diversify their real estate portfolios in their quest for worthwhile returns in the current low-interest-rate environment
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Special Report
Infrastructure Debt: A niche strategy
There are many reasons why infrastructure debt should feature in LDI strategies for UK pension funds. But do not expect a huge growth in allocations, says Joseph Mariathasan
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Special Report
Top 400: Liquidity-Risk Management - Managing fund liquidity in Europe
Regulators have turned their attention to addressing the European asset management industry’s handling of liquidity risk, writes Federico Cupelli
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Special Report
Greek crisis appears defused
A renewed Greek crisis looks unlikely after the recent debt relief deal with creditors. Ayşe Ferliel Barounos reports
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Country Report
Iceland: Slowly but surely
Iceland’s capital controls imposed in the wake of the country’s banking crisis eight years ago are being lifted for pension funds, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Special Report
Top 400: Multi-asset investing renaissance
Multi-asset strategies have many diversification benefits for investors in today’s challenging environment, according to Phil Edwards and Ben Lewis
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Special Report
Top 400: Disruptive Technology - The four ‘Ds’ of disruption
JR Lowry believes that digitisation, de-risking, disintermediation and democratisation are transforming the asset management industry
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Absolutely no excuses
The big US proxy fights – at Chevron, Exxon and Southern Company – over resolutions to publish 2°C climate change stress tests happened in May. Did common sense prevail?
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Features
From Our Perspective: Under the thumb
Some occupational pensions and their regulatory systems were designed for another era. Increasingly, fixed-rate annual accrual or guarantee systems, like German and Swiss Pensionskassen, look like relics.
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Features
ESG: PGGM gets serious on carbon reduction
PGGM, asset manager for the €172bn Dutch healthcare pension fund PFZW, is to divest the scheme’s stakes in more than 200 mining, steel and energy companies in a bid to halve its investment portfolio’s carbon footprint.
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Features
Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global: Changes at the margins for oil giant
Falling inflows from oil revenue to Norway’s leviathan Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) will not change the NOK7.1trn (€762bn) sovereign wealth fund’s investment strategy or its need for diversification, according to the fund’s second in command.
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Features
UK Pensions Regulator: TPR bares its teeth
Since UK retailer BHS entered administration in April, leaving its two pension funds with a combined deficit of £571m (€743m) on a buyout basis, questions have been raised about the ability of the UK Pensions Regulator (TPR) to hold the industry to account.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Tax targeting continues
Pressure to clean up the financial sector has led to copious legislation from Brussels.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: No clarity on hedgies
Not all pension funds are abandoning hedge funds. And the ones that are could be making the same mistake that investors often make – basing decisions on the past.
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Features
Interview: Ros Altmann, UK Pensions Minister
Implementing long-term policy in a political world dominated by the short-term news cycle seems horrifyingly difficult. Unlike the primarily consensus-driven policy making of our European neighbours, UK public policy is frequently devised with more than half an eye to news headlines.
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Features
Interview: Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, National Pension Commission of Nigeria
Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, the head of Nigeria’s National Pension Commission tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about plans to extend pension provision in Africa’s most populous country
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Features
Research: An inventive retirement solution
Governments should issue bonds that encompass both the accumulation and decumulation phases for defined contribution participants, argues Arun Muralidhar
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Features
Research: Driving an energy transition
Jane Ambachtsheer discusses the outcome of an initiative to raise investor awareness of climate change and focus efforts on clean energy investment
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Alfred Gohdes - Willis Towers Watson
“The cost for a German young person to provide for a pension has roughly tripled since 2008”
