Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 224
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Country Report
Interview: Stephen Wyss - Prevanto
The new Swiss actuarial consultancy Prevanto is upfront about its origins. One of its managing directors, Stephan Wyss, talks to Barbara Ottawa
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Special Report
Diversified Growth Strategies: Life in them yet?
Diversified growth strategies were first conceived in the aftermath of the tech bubble and have since amassed a huge volume of assets despite
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Special Report
Outlook 2016: Are asset managers now banks?
Asset managers are replacing banks in the supply of credit to certain sectors of the economy. Does this increase systemic risk? Carlo Svaluto Moreolo investigates
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Country Report
Investment Grade Bonds: Is there a substitute for high-grade bonds?
With interest rates expected to remain near zero, pension funds are looking for alternatives to fixed-income instruments
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Special Report
Commentary: The DGF super brand
Diversified growth funds have become a core investment for many UK pension funds with strong demand from countries. Will Mayne defines the concept
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Special Report
Outlook 2016: Commodities - Winners and losers of slump
The fall in commodity prices since 2011 has depressed economic growth in commodity-exporting countries but boosted growth in manufacturing economies
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Country Report
Infrastructure: Investing in real assets
Swiss pension funds are struggling to find value in infrastructure investments
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Special Report
Outlook 2016: Weighing currency’s value
Currency movements are capable of wrong-footing even the experts. Yet many argue that there are enough predictable patterns to these movements to make currency a valuable asset class
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Special Report
Diversified growth: a health warning
The challenge of understanding complex multi-asset strategies in line with fiduciary duty means other alternatives may be more suitable for investors
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Special Report
Outlook 2016: Regulation - Modified IORP still a headache
As a raft of financial directives continue to flow from the EU, two are raising the most concerns among pension schemes
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Special Report
Risk diversification ‘on’
Increasing sophistication and understanding of risk premia is leading to new approaches to combine them in a portfolio
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Special Report
Illiquid approaches
Some of the world’s largest institutional investors have had great success in illiquid investments such as private equity, infrastructure and lending
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FeaturesFrom our perspective: Off to the right start?
What could the UK learn from other countries as it seeks to consolidate the LGPS? There are clear arguments in favour of consolidation, and one recent proposal involves asset pools
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Features
Q3 Returns: China volatility hits Europe’s funds
Volatile equity markets caused third-quarter losses for most of Europe’s pension funds, as fears over China’s economy spread.
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Features
NAPF Conference: Out with the old, in with the new
The recent National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) annual conference in Manchester signalled significant change for the industry
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Features
Auto-enrolment in Italy: An unlikely champion
Italy tried automatic enrolment in 2007 and it failed. Workers were given six months to decide whether their severance pay money, or TFR, should be kept on their company’s books or transferred to a second-pillar pension fund
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Features
Pensions Accounting: Is it enough?
The bid of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to persuade the European Union to endorse International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS9) on financial instruments, remains controversial.
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Features
Interview: Nigel Stapleton - National Grid UK Pension Scheme
Nigel Stapleton tells Liam Kennedy about the decision this year to dispose of National Grid UK Pension Scheme’s in-house manager Aerion and how the scheme will be managed in future
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Features
Research: A new mindset for a new age
In the second article on a new pension survey, Pascal Blanque and Amin Rajan argue that it is harder to make rational decisions in this age of ultra-low rates
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Peter de Proft & Alexander Schindler - EFAMA
The Action Plan for a Capital Markets Union, recently published by the European Commission, is both ambitious and sensible
