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  • Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
    Opinion Pieces

    Deleveraging is no free lunch

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    After temporarily shutting down the global economy, governments are pursuing a massive fiscal expansion in order to support struggling businesses and consumers.

  • Special Report

    2021 Investment horizons: Sovereign debt in the wake of the pandemic

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Current issuance levels look like an experiment in government debt. What are the warning signals for investors?

  • Country Report

    Norway: Tangen’s reshuffle at NBIM

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    The colourful new CEO of Norway’s sovereign fund is targeting a more diverse and technologically resilient organisation

  • Venilia
    Opinion Pieces

    Improvement required

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Climate change will continue to be one of the most economically impactful events as it affects us all. It requires immediate and ambitious action to prevent the worst effects on people and biodiversity and it signals a message that nations need to build a more resilient and sustainable global financial system.

  • Karin Franceries
    Special Report

    2021 Investment Horizons: Hazy outlook for hedging

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Investors must be cautious when navigating today’s cloudy inflation landscape

  • Anders Skjævestad
    Country Report

    Norway's individual pensions: Pots follow member

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    New rules should drive consolidation and inject competition into the supplementary pensions business  

  • Juan Dolado
    Special Report

    2021 Investment Horizons: A painful year looks imminent

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Pension provision is likely to take a hit in 2021 as the pandemic-related crises lead to rising unemployment and greater job insecurity

  • The Nordic Museum, Stockholm
    Country Report

    Sweden's AP funds: Alternatives are go

    December 2020 (Magazine)

     AP funds welcome the removal of the ceiling on their investment in alternatives

  • Joseph Mariathasan
    Features

    Is sustainability mispriced?

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Living in the developed world over the past 50 years, life has been stable, even idyllic, for most people. That is certainly compared with their grandparents and previous generations who lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu. But, as COVID-19 has shown so cruelly, there are existential dangers that can lie hidden. These can rip the established world order asunder if not tackled beforehand. 

  • Raj Thamotheram
    Features

    Long term matters: A time to be hopeful and active?

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Jaap van Dam, principal director of investment strategy at PGGM, is right: pension funds need to understand politics. We have two additions. First, the ‘outside-in’ focus – how politics affects portfolios – is a great starting point. But investors cannot stop there, they have considerable influence on politics whether for good or bad. 

  • Sir Ronald Cohen
    Opinion Pieces

    Guest viewpoint: Sir Ronald Cohen

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    We are on the threshold of another major shift in institutional portfolios. Impact transparency is changing the rules for both investors and businesses.

  • Marcus Svedberg
    Interviews

    On the record: Outlook 2021

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Heading towards the end of one of the most challenging years ever for the global economy, IPE asked three institutional investors about their outlook for 2021

  • Heimrich.AW.
    Interviews

    How we run our money: Germany's BVK

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    André Heimrich (pictured), CIO of the Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), and his team speak to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the pension fund’s global diversification strategy

  • Yale Campus - Success bteeds success
    Features

    US endowments: Success breeds success

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Perhaps no single group of institutional investors elicits as much fascination and admiration as US university endowments – in particular those of the Ivy League, and among that elite group the Yale and Harvard endowments in particular. 

  • Substantial tail of underperforming accumulation choice options
    Opinion Pieces

    Letter from Australia: Reforms not super for default funds

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    A string of government reforms due to come into effect from July 2021 has caught the superannuation sector off-guard.  

  • Jon Pliner
    Opinion Pieces

    Letter from US: COVID-19 places new demands on university endowments

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    COVID-19 has hit a special category of institutional investors in the US hard – college and university endowments. In fact, higher education institutions are facing a decline in revenues because of fewer students enrolling and paying tuition, as well as current students asking for more financial aid. Colleges and universities are withdrawing substantial amounts from their endowments to cover these extra expenses. How is this affecting endowments’ investment strategies? 

  • Mark Dowding
    Features

    Strategically Speaking: BlueBay Asset Management

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Nowadays, it seems fair to ask asset managers whether they believe they can fulfil their clients’ needs while at the same time doing their bit to fight COVID-19. 

  • Lynda Whitney
    Features

    Accounting Matters: Accounting for the Wedge

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    The reason why defined benefit (DB) scheme sponsors account for inflation is because International Accounting Standard 19, Employee Benefits, tells them that if they make a benefit promise that is linked to price increases, the effect of that commitment has to be accounted for. The starting point for what by any standards is a gargantuan actuarial task is to look at yields on inflation-linked bonds. 

  • Markowitz is still modern
    Features

    Perspective: Markowitz is still modern

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    Thirty years after he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Harry Markowitz’s groundbreaking work from the 1950s still powers financial innovation

  • Pascal Blanque
    Features

    Research: Resilience is the new watchword

    December 2020 (Magazine)

    In the first of two articles, Pascal Blanqué and Amin Rajan ask whether the current volatility in asset prices is a buying opportunity or the halfway stage in a prolonged bear market?