Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 209
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Special Report
Financial Liberalisation: More access to Chinese assets
Florence Chong explores how China is opening up its bond and equity markets to foreign investors
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Asset Class Reports
The impact of shifting commodity prices
Rising commodity prices are good news for commodity exporters but Rodrigo Amaral finds they can even benefit importers
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Features
Trump fixation obscures bigger picture
Donald Trump is such a lurid character (to put it politely) that it is all too easy to become obsessed with him. That helps explain why there is so much fraught discussion of him even outside the US
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Special Report
Asset Allocation: The 60/40 question
Joseph Mariathasan asks how multi-asset managers are seeking to prove their worth in a low-return, high-correlation world, when a 60/40 equity/bond portfolio looks hard to beat
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Special Report
EM rally greeted with caution
Emerging market currencies have been boosted recently by strong inflows from investors seeking higher returns. But Ayşe Ferliel Barounos finds not everyone expects the rebound to last
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Curves, currency and costs
More than anywhere else, the low and negative interest rate environment is shaping Swiss portfolios. But investment challenges are quite particular, finds Barbara Ottawa
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Special ReportThe rise of the renminbi
Joseph Mariathasan discusses the rise of the renminbi with Prof Eswar Prasad of Cornell University
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Asset Class Reports
EM portfolios can gain from balance
Investors looking to optimise their exposure to emerging markets should not limit themselves to strategies that focus only on large companies and countries
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Features
Emerging markets make no sense
After poor performances over the past three years, which led to large outflows, EM assets are finding their way back into institutional portfolios
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Country Report
Financial Sustainability: Are there enough assets?
Lukas Riesen and Stephan Skaanes ask whether Swiss pension funds can financially afford their promises
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Special Report
Yen and renminbi: The big yen and yuan story
Policies being pursued by Japan and China for different reasons are behind the rising yen and the falling renminbi that are having significant effects on financial markets
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Special Report
Testing the value of diversified growth
Anthony Harrington finds managers keen to emphasise the robustness of the diversified growth concept following criticism from the likes of Willis Towers Watson
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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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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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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
