Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 211
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Features
An industrial revolution
There used to be a stark divide in pensions, particularly in the UK and the US, with a high level of security in defined benefit (DB) and a low level in defined contribution (DC)
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Features
Research: The need for retirement bonds
Government-issued retirement bonds with a GDP-related coupon would help redress the savings imbalance by increasing government investment and mitigating the effects of quantative easing on pension funds, Jean Frijns, Theo van de Klundert and Anton van Nunen write
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Country ReportSpain: Focus on safety first
Pension funds are reducing their risk levels in response to uncertainties generated by Spain’s failure to form a government, Brexit and Italy’s banking crisis
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: The search for global opportunities
Finding attractive companies in the current market environment is no easy matter even within the entire universe of global equities
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Special Report
Special Report Fixed Income Strategy: No more easy gains
What started as an emergency measure looks like it has become a permanent state of affairs.
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Special Report
German Asset Management: Investors climb the risk ladder
Continuing low interest rates are forcing investors to move further up the risk ladder in search of returns. Barbara Ottawa reports
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Features
A dollar decline is overdue
For anyone who follows currency trends, and indeed asset markets more generally, the triennial survey from the Bank for International Settlements is invaluable
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Features
Research: Retirement Income - How much is enough?
Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald outlines a new approach to the calculation of retirement income adequacy
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Country ReportPensions Caixa 30: Risk-reduction exercise
Gail Moss finds out what Spain’s biggest corporate pension scheme has been doing to reduce risk in its investment portfolio
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Special Report
New rules for Spezialfonds: Pandora’s box of opportunities
New rules for Spezialfonds lending could be a huge boost to Germany’s chronically underfunded infrastructure sector, says Thomas Richter
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Asset Class Reports
Valuations: Emerging from the wings
Against a backdrop of lacklustre growth in the developed world, emerging markets are beginning to find favour again with investors
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Special Report
The fall and fall of interest rates
To understand the current low level of interest rates, it is necessary to see it as the culmination of a trend that goes back to the 1980s
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Features
Rethinking political risk
In recent conversations with investors about the prospects for global growth, the focus seemed to be more on the upcoming US election and Brexit than on economic fundamentals. It struck me how musings on political risk can influence an investor’s view on long-term market returns.
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Special Report
Kandlbinder 2016: Spezialfonds inflows top €100bn
Till Entzian surveys Germany’s €1.3trn Spezialfonds market, which saw record inflows over the course of 2015
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Country Report
Portugal: An eye on European clouds
Against a backdrop of a steadily recovering domestic economy, private pension funds in Portugal have maintained stable asset allocations over the past year
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Asset Class Reports
Investment Approaches: Reasons to be cheerful
With 30,000 potential stocks in the global equities universe, picking the right investment approach may be more important than the right manager, argues Joseph Mariathasan
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Special Report
Euro-Zone: Unquantifiable QE
The effects of the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme are yet to be quantified, leading some to think of it as the world’s biggest ‘experiment’. Caroline Hay reports
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Special Report
Universal-Investment: Weathering the challenges
Markus Neubauer examines how the clients of the Master-KAG provider Universal-Investment are managing their portfolios
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of selected global equity funds to macro factors
The chart data shows the sensitivity of the five largest global equity funds to changes in macroeconomic factors: global default spreads; global interest rates; US Dollar Trade Weighted Index and global inflation. IPE and PureGroup selected the largest domestic and cross-border funds registered for sale in the UK, in terms of assets, from the Morningstar database.
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Special Report
US Bonds: The only game in town
The US bond market is benefiting from negative interest rates in Europe and elsewhere. Christopher O’Dea reports
