Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 244
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Special Report
Investors warm up to bank contingent convertible bonds
Investors have grown in confidence with bank contingent convertible bonds as their confidence in bank stability has risen
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Asset Class Reports
High Yield: Oil, banks and rates
Martin Steward finds the diversity of high yield reflected in three very different kinds of risk run behind similar-looking headline exposures
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Country Report
Germany's corporate funds: Status quo needs a makeover
Nigel Cresswell looks at how German corporate pension funds are dealing with the current economic headwinds and tailwinds
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Special Report
Non-financial hybrid securities: Fixed-income exotica
Hybrids have taken off because they marry the current needs of both issuers and fixed-income investors. David Turner looks at how this sweet deal could go sour
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Country Report
German funds under pressure to review asset allocation
German pension funds must review their strategic asset allocation to avoid headwinds in the fixed-income market
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Special Report
'CoCos': bondholder's friends or foes?
There are complexities associated with banks’ contingent convertibles, or ’CoCos’, but this, combined with a more resilient, less systemically-linked industry, is a source of value
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Country Report
German Versorgungswerke: Infrastructure, here we come
German Versorgungswerke have the go ahead to increase infrastructure lending – but a shortage in supply hinders growth
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Special Report
Convertible bond valuations remain attractive
Subdued volatility has taken the options within convertible bonds down to very attractive valuations
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Country Report
Spezialfonds: A boost for the sector
Hans-Jürgen Dannheisig and Clemens Schuerhoff assess drivers in the German Spezialfonds business and changes in the asset management industry
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Special Report
Convertible bond performance: Best of both worlds
The hybrid characteristics of convertible securities provide strategic benefits through economic cycles
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Special Report
Convertibles and Solvency II: Preaching to the unconverted
Joseph Mariathasan asks whether convertible bonds might offer Solvency II-regulated investors some equity upside with a limited capital charge
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Features
Cashing out
This is the last leader column I will write for IPE, ending six years as its investment editor
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Features
Regulatory bottleneck
Perhaps the true long-lasting legacy of the 2008-09 financial crisis is a heightened focus on regulation. Although the crisis itself was not sparked by pension funds, they are all too affected by the new wave of rules generated by those events.
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Features
From our perspective: A meeting of minds?
Germany is the undisputed political and economic leader of Europe and the euro-zone but it has been notably less proactive on pensions
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Features
2014 Returns: Tomorrow’s returns today
Pension investors generally saw strong returns over the course of 2014 but for many it will be a one-off boost at the expense of growth in 2015.
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Features
NAPF Conference Report: The grand European plan
The language coming out of Brussels in the first three months of 2015 has centred heavily on the Capital Markets Union (CMU). At this year’s NAPF Investment Conference, in Edinburgh, the European Commission was nothing if not on-message.
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FeaturesAuto-protection: More than one way to skin a cat
This month, the UK defined contribution sector opens its doors to new freedoms
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Features
Dutch Regulation: Dutch central bank bares its teeth
It certainly set tongues wagging in the Dutch pensions industry – De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the financial regulator, declared Joanne de Graaff, a professional trustee, “unfit” for duty
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Dear Finance Minister
In March 2015, leading investment consultants gathered at the residence of a leading UK financier to discuss dangerous climate risk. This is a hypothetical letter from one of the participants.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Uphill battle for CMU
There is enthusiasm for the EU’s capital market union (CMU) project. However, it faces prodigious obstacles in achieving its 2019 deadline.
