Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 210
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Special Report
Risk parity post-Brexit
Despite the increase in risk in many asset classes from a year ago, risk parity funds have weathered this summer’s volatile markets
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FeaturesRegulatory monoculture and systemic risk
What is the connection between tropical fruit and systemic risk? In 1990, when East German citizens demonstrated for freedom and democracy, the banana became a potent symbol of the basic level of prosperity to which they aspired
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Features
UK's LPGS: Mixed reviews for final regulations
Guidance on new investment regulations for UK local government pension schemes (LPGS) has been welcomed for changing the course of asset pooling “for the better”
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Features
Regulation: Pension funds join fray on systemic risk
The consultation by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on its proposals to address structural vulnerabilities for asset management activities has set off a skirmish between those institutions wanting mandatory stress-tests to include pension and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), and those that do not.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: The lost decades
Evidence is emerging that the oil and gas sector knew about the risks of climate change for 40 years and buried this information. Had the world started decarbonising earlier, we could have done more to protect biodiversity and human life
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Interviews
On the Record: Are you rebuilding your emerging market portfolio?
Three pension funds - Ericsson pensionsstiftelse, Linde and Previp - discuss their emerging market exposure
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Features
Accounting: Just ignore the FRC
The UK government’s release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act has brought into question the Financial Reporting Council’s pronouncements on distributable profits. Stephen Bouvier explores the issue
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Unilever Dutch pension funds
Rob Kragten, CEO, and Michael Kaal, director of finance and risk at the Unilever Dutch pension funds, tell Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about risk management and collective defined contribution
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Features
Commodity prices on the rebound
After hitting a low earlier this year, are commodity prices on the brink of a sustained rise? Daniel Ben-Ami investigates
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Affiliated Managers Group
The business philosophy of AMG is a consistent one: grow revenue and cash earnings per share by taking stakes in best-in-class boutique asset management businesses. Repeat the exercise
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
In most elections, pollsters do their best to gauge voting intentions. However, until the votes are cast, experience has shown that exercising a more cautious pre-election stance is probably advised
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: Trend-following - quality not quantity
Stephen Wood explains why a single well-researched trend-following investment model can produce better results than simply relying on diversification using different models
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Features
Focus Group: Warm on EM investment
Just three of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group have increased their allocation to emerging and frontier markets in the past three years
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Features
Diary of an Investor: War stories
Last month I joined our co-operation partners at PensionKøbenhavn in Copenhagen for a private round table of institutional investors discussing real assets
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator November 2016
Summer is over. Gone for the next nine months are the warm nights, and worry-free days…correction, only the warm nights have gone. The worry-free days did not exist this summer, and they still do not.
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News
UK pensions minister supports indexation change 'in principle'
Schemes should be allowed to change indexation calculations ‘as long as members are protected’
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Features
Securities Lending: More work to be done
Brian Bollen examines the resilience of securities lending as it evolves to meet new challenges and demands in the financial industry
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Chris Curry - Pensions Policy Institute
The pensions world is constantly changing. In the UK, more DC savers, coupled with recently introduced flexibility of access, will increase the levels of risk and complexity for many
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Endowment rethink
Should other university endowments follow the Yale model or is it time to rethink how they invest and take a simpler approach, such as an indexed 60/40 portfolio? That is the big question for NP ‘Narv’ Narvekar, who becomes the CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) in December.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Pan-EU private schemes for 2017?
Legislation proposing pan-EU personal pension products (PEPPs) could be tabled in 2017, according to the European Commission
