Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 48
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InterviewsOn the record: Emerging market debt
At a time of high volatility in interest rates, currencies and GDP, two seasoned investors in emerging market debt discuss their approaches
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Opinion PiecesItaly’s far-right government won’t bring about great changes
The largely anticipated outcome of the Italian election was a strong mandate for the centre-right coalition. This would hardly be a new scenario, were it not for the fact that this time the chosen leader is Giorgia Meloni of Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), a right-wing party with historical links with fascism.
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Opinion PiecesESG Viewpoint: The genius of SFDR - requiring ordinal disclosure is so much more than a label
When the EU originally announced its High-Level Action Plan for Sustainable Growth in 2018, its intended eco-label received a lot of attention. Many considered the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) a boring, administrative matter. Labels are shiny commonplace symbols hyped by corporate marketing teams around the world to instil a feel-good factor in retail consumers and bolster the defensibility of institutional buyer decision making. Required Ordinal Disclosure (ROD) is a technocratic idea whose genius has remained largely unrecognised to date.
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FeaturesIASB's management commentary project faces identity crisis
Any regular follower of the International Accounting Standards Board is probably familiar with a particular recurring nightmare. It starts with good intentions but spirals into shifting project goals, missed targets, and unquantifiable hours of wasted time. Perhaps you awoke during July to find yourself observing the board’s July discussion of its management commentary project.
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FeaturesPension funds continue their focus on ESG social issues
Before the year is over, European policymakers are expected to announce their decision to shelve plans for a social taxonomy.
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FeaturesMarket overview: German institutional investors manage uncertainty
At mid-year 2022, the volume of Spezialfonds – the German vehicle for professional investors – administered on Universal Investment’s platform was €498bn, a rise of around 5% year on year. On a six-month basis, however, and compared with the end of the booming stock year 2021, asset volumes were down around 3%.
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FeaturesFixed income, rates & currency: Central banks act tough
This year’s Jackson Hole Symposium, an annual high-level event sponsored by the Reserve Bank of Kansas, yielded relatively little policy news. But the fighting talk from the US Federal Reserve and others was striking. Fed chair Jerome Powell’s speech was markedly more hawkish than expected, while Isabel Schnabel, board member of the European Central Bank, referred to the need for central banks to act ‘forcefully’ because “both the likelihood and the cost of current high inflation becoming entrenched in expectations are uncomfortably high”.
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: Clearing up the ‘scaling’ confusion in carbon intensity
Today, a company’s carbon intensity is typically measured in one of two ways – scaling by revenue, or by EVIC (enterprise value including cash). The choice an investor makes can lead to differences in portfolio characteristics.
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FeaturesQontigo Riskwatch - October 2022
*Data as of 31 August 2022. Forecast risk estimate for each index measured by the respective US, World and Emerging Markets Qontigo model variants
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator: monthly commentary
Political risk has decreased. An attack in the north-east of Ukraine took the Russian army by surprise but did not cause collateral damage in Russia. Russians’ resistance to the war is mounting but far from a critical level. It looks like the EU will survive the winter without major energy disruption and caps on energy prices are falling into place.
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Special ReportInflation: expectations … and reality
In 2022, inflation surprised only on the upside, and surrounding economic conditions became increasingly uncertain. As short-term inflationary pressure has moderately spilled into inflation expectations – 10-year German inflation breakevens rose from 0.5% to more than 2% in 24 months1 – our DWS Long View capital market expectations for the next decade remain below historical averages.
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Special ReportActive ETFs: mixed fortunes
Tax efficiency and regulatory change have been the key drivers of the development of active exchange-traded funds in the US. As there are no similar tax benefits nor regulatory change in Europe, growth in this region has been limited.
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Special ReportActive ETFs: five myths debunked
Demand for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has grown rapidly in Europe in recent years. While much of this growth has been driven by passive funds, research shows that investors are increasingly looking at active ETF strategies. Nevertheless, there are still lots of common misconceptions that are hindering the take-up of active ETFs. Here, we debunk the the most common myths about active ETFs.
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Special ReportGlobal emerging markets index investing: the case for an active component
Emerging market (EM) equities have an important role to play in broadly diversified institutional portfolios. Our data analysis shows that for investors who have a buy-and-hold strategy, an active component is needed to stay close to the benchmark because of trading costs and, more importantly, because of higher slippage costs by passive managers in downward markets.
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Special ReportTransparency: getting it taped
It’s much harder for European ETF investors to get detailed information on liquidity, volumes and best execution than it is for their US counterparts. That’s because this data isn’t aggregated into a consolidated tape as it is on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Special ReportCrypto ETFs: exploring the keys to mass adoption
The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) made history last October as one of the strongest ever ETF launches, amassing more than $1bn (€1bn) in assets in just two days.
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RFQ platforms and the institutional ETF trading revolution
What do ETFs, RFQ and ESG all have in common? Aside from being some of the most popular acronyms in the history of financial services, the three-letter abbreviations for exchange-traded funds (ETF), electronic request-for-quote (RFQ) trading, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) driven investing, have all come together at the centre of a revolution in asset management.
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Special ReportPost-Brexit flux in Europe
Although Brexit has changed the dynamics of the European asset management landscape, the checklist for choosing a location for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) has not altered: a solid legislative foundation, requisite skillsets, favourable tax treatment and cross-border distribution acumen.
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Legal and regulatory developments: EU plays catch-up
While the European framework for establishing ETFs has not changed substantially in recent times, developments within the legislative bodies of the EU present a number of current and potential hurdles for ETFs in the short to medium term. This article will look at each legal development in turn. It is also important to note that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a number of areas that need to be strengthened.
