Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 225
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Country Report
PERCO brews a success
A new law aims to make collective retirement savings plans more attractive, writes Susanna Rust
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Special Report
Global Energy: Something new under the sun
An overview of the global energy sector shows the world’s relationship with energy is being transformed, writes Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Features
Private Equity Fees: Standardisation still elusive
A string of initiatives has attempted to resolve the complexity and opacity of private equity fees. One of latest such initiatives has received mixed reviews from European investors
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Asset Class Reports
Secondaries move up the ladder
The secondary market has become an integral part of the private equity universe. Even big sovereign wealth funds are participating
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Special Report
Credit Outlook: Selective opportunities
Investors are re-examining credit fundamentals following the strong market gyrations of early 2016. But, as Joseph Mariathasan finds, there are still concerns about spread levels, liquidity and on-going concerns about the macroeconomic environment
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Special Report
Trends that will shape the ETF market
Few doubt that ETF use will grow in the years ahead. Three out of four participants in a recent PwC survey believe the market will at least double by 2020 to US$5trn (€4.4trn)1. BlackRock believes European ETFs will reach US$1trn a year earlier, in 2019.
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Country Report
Domestic investment: Returns, but at what cost?
Although Swiss pension funds have a low home bias, local investments still make up a substantial proportion of their portfolios
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Features
Pensions should have a wider purpose
Pension funds like to emphasise that their key goal is to provide sustainable retirement income to their members.Yet many pension funds spend significant resources on addressing issues that go beyond providing pensions
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Country Report
Interview: Roger Tischhauser
Roger Tischhauser is responsible for 40% of the assets in the Swiss second pillar and is an agent for reform in the pensions debate
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Country Report
Energy Transition: TEEed up for change
A new law has forced climate change onto institutional investors’ agenda, says Susanna Rust
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Special Report
Oil & Gas: In search of moats
Joseph Mariathasan asks whether investors should take a bullish or a bearish stance on the low oil price
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Features
Behind Chinese walls
Liyu Zeng and Priscilla Luk analyse the challenges in designing a benchmark to measure the performance of both offshore and onshore listed companies
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Asset Class Reports
European Venture Capital: Era of disruptive ventures
The use of disruptive technologies is opening up opportunities for European venture capital to build successful global companies
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Special Report
Addressing current liquidity concerns
Two years ago, BlackRock’s chief executive Larry Fink warned that structural problems with leveraged ETFs had the potential one day to “blow up” the industry. While the alleged explosion hasn’t yet happened, does that mean the danger has gone away?
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Special Report
Life in an alternative universe
Structural changes in pension fund asset and liability profiles are making alternative credit more attractive to pension funds. This is transforming fixed-income allocations as investors navigate a new universe and compete for scarce assets
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Country Report
Interview: André Tapernoux
Pension funds should be more realistic about evaluating liabilities, André Tapernoux tells Barbara Ottawa
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Country Report
SME Lending: Finance funds for business
Gilles Pouzin writes about the creation of a new fund designed to see institutional assets converted into loans for small French enterprises
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Special Report
Oil and gas woes fuel deal appetite
Energy price falls and financing pressures are attracting the attention of credit and hedge fund investors on the lookout for cheap energy assets, says Jennifer Bollen
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Special Report
Observations on ETF liquidity
The exchange-traded fund (ETF) market continues to grow rapidly in size and popularity, reaching $3trn in assets worldwide
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Nikko Asset Management
From a European perspective the story of Japanese finance over the decades seems to be one of dramatic rise followed by spectacular fall
