Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 209
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your liability-driven investment strategy?
Three pension funds - Blue Sky Group, HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Scheme and Pension Protection Fund - talk about their approach to LDI
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Features
Accounting: Play it again, Sam
The IFRS Foundation’s latest effectiveness review has drawn criticism. But you could be forgiven for thinking you have read it somewhere before
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FeaturesCommunication: Lessons from Scandinavia
The UK can learn from Scandinavia as it seeks to implement a pensions dashboard by 2019
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Stapi
Arne Vagn Olsen, CIO of Stapi, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the pension fund’s asset allocation strategy as the capital controls on Icelandic pension funds are gradually lifted
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Special Report
Top 400: A digital wake-up call
Investment firms have to compete with their conventional peers and fast-growing fintech start-ups when it comes to client communication, writes Catherine Doherty
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Features
Investment: Brexit proofing
Christopher O’Dea reports on the implications for institutional investors arising from the UK’s referendum on European Union membership
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Features
Currency hedging 2.0
Ugo Lancioni, Fredrik Repton and Nikola Petrovic argue that it is possible to make currency hedging more forward looking and better integrated into asset allocation
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Features
Convexity: the perfect trade?
Chris Brandt outlines how investors can make use of convexity in fixed income portfolios
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Features
Bond Strategy: Time to reallocate?
Nimisha Srivastava and Harald Eggerstedt call for a rethink of fixed-income investment in the face of the ECB’s asset purchase and QE programmes
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Features
Macro Matters: Beware the exit genie
Most Brexit speculation seems to be focused on consequences for the UK should it leave the EU, says Bob Swarup. But the result could well be the beginning of the end for the European project
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
As 2016 opened, the fate of emerging market assets was tied to fears of renminbi devaluation and the collapse in commodity prices. Now market focus has moved, and with a bounce in commodities it is Chinese economic news, as well as the ever-important Fed pronouncements, that determine mood.
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: There’s gold in currency trading
Christopher Cruden makes the case for investing in gold by treating it as a major currency
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Features
Focus Group: Anxieties over Brexit effects
More than 70% of respondents to this month’s Focus Group on the possible British exit (Brexit) from the EU say that the European economy would be worse off if the UK votes to leave in this month’s referendum.
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Features
Diary of an Investor: It’s the way you say it
Wasserdicht’s Dutch pension fund is looking to improve the way it communicates with members. Or as Rolf, our chairman of trustees, puts it, the way we talk about bad news
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Features
BlackRock dominates as LGIM joins 10 largest managers
BlackRock continues to dominate the asset management world, managing a third more in assets than Vanguard, the second largest manager (€4.398trn to €3.091trn), according to the 2016 IPE Top 400 Asset Managers survey.
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Features
ESG: The circle of life
Susanna Rust delves into the circular economy and why it matters for long-term institutional investors
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Special Report
Top 400: Productivity - Improving the wider economy
The asset management industry should focus more on long-term value creation, says Andrew Ninian
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Special Report
Top 400: Investor Trust - Overcoming the trust deficit
Paul Smith argues that investment managers have a responsibility to be good fiduciary managers and ethical participants in the financial markets
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Features
Up the knowledge curve
Public understanding of long-term investment can be limited. Repeated exercises in the Netherlands have shown that when pension fund members are asked about their investment-risk tolerance, they say they want a higher return and no risk
