Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 215
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Country Report
Diversified Growth Funds: Diffusing the risk
Katherine Lynas and Adam Gillespie point out that strong diversified growth funds distinguish themselves in performance terms at times of heightened market stress
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Country Report
A Dutch view on IORP II
IORP II sometimes fails to reflect European case law, according to Hans Van Meerten
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Special Report
Asset manager playbook
As the dust settles following the UK referendum vote on 23 June, Theresa May, the new UK prime minister has been clear: “Brexit means Brexit”.
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Features
ESG: Trickle-up dynamics
How much ESG regulation starts its life as an EU directive and how much is introduced by individual member states? Jonathan Williams investigates
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of selected EM debt funds to macro factors
The chart data shows the sensitivity of the five largest emerging market debt (EMD) funds to changes in macroeconomic factors: emerging market default spreads; global term spreads; and emerging market dividend yields
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Special Report
Denmark: A time of adjustments
The implementation of Solvency II into Danish law means there are now no large single regulatory issues outstanding
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Country Report
Master Trusts: A DC default for the future
Pádraig Floyd assesses how master trust providers are shaping the design of defined contribution default funds
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Features
ESG: VW scandal presents choices
Investors in the scandal-hit German carmaker must make a choice between collective or individual action, or sitting out for the time being, according to Johan Polet and Jonathan Bakkers
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Special Report
Finland: Private sector funds subject to new solvency rules
The parameters of investment and liability risks of first-pillar funds have been re-calculated following a major overhaul of the country’s solvency framework
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Country Report
DB Sponsor Covenants: Underlying weaknesses
The British Steel and BHS cases have drawn attention to structural flaws in the UK’s defined benefit system when it comes to the sponsor covenant, writes Gill Wadsworth
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Union Investment
Union Investment has succeeded in transforming itself into a force in European asset management over the past decade
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Special Report
France: Pension funds à la française
For the first time occupational pensions are to receive a dedicated regulatory underpinning of their own
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Country Report
Longevity in the spotlight
Scheme-specific adjustments to standard industry tables can help smaller pension funds take into account the effect of longevity, according to Michael Kelly and Glyn Bradley
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Special ReportGermany: On the pre-election reform drive
The German government is hoping to finalise a major reform of the pension system before key state elections in spring 2017
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Features
From Our Perspective: Brexit adds to the pressure
Future observers might point to the 23 June EU referendum as a turning point for UK occupational pensions. The fall in Gilt yields has added pain to trustees and sponsors, vindicating those who had hedging strategies in place
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Features
EC heeds concerns over EMIR sovereign-bond collateral rule
Pension schemes could be exempt from a diversification requirement relating to the use of sovereign bonds as collateral for non-centrally cleared derivatives
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Features
Quantitative Easing: UK trustees locked in vicious circle
The Bank of England’s decision to re-launch its quantitative easing (QE) programme in August, has seen defined benefit deficits across the country’s 6,000 schemes rise to unprecedented levels
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Have an affair or see a therapist?
An estranged couple, frustrated by their sex life, face a hard choice: have an affair or see a therapist and commit to renewing their relationship.
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FeaturesInterview: Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel prize in 2002 for insights from cognitive psychology that provided the basis for behavioural economics
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Interviews
On the Record: Does Brexit change your investment strategy?
Three pension funds - APK Pensionskasse, ÄVWL and PFA pension - discuss Brexit’s impact
