Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 97
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Country ReportItaly: Ready for the challenge
Italy’s occupational pension funds are primed to deal with the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Special ReportSWFs: Never waste a good crisis
Despite pressure on revenues from oil and gas, Arab sovereign wealth funds are taking opportunistic bets in foreign markets in the face of global economic turmoil
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Opinion PiecesTurn crisis into opportunity
One of the most striking features of the discussion of what could be called the Corona crisis – the economic and financial crisis associated with the COVID-19 pandemic – is its pervasive intellectual laziness. Far too few commentators are trying to grapple with its unique features.
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Asset Class ReportsCredit: High yield managers embrace uncertainty
Managers are constructive about high yield, loans and alternative credit despite the volatile outlook
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Special ReportInvestment services: Euroclear acts to aid Sweden’s looser rules
Euroclear Sweden’s new digital postal vote service is helping investors participate in AGMs
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Country ReportInterview: Vincent Chaigneau, Generali Insurance Asset Management
‘We think it is very unlikely that we will witness a v-shaped recovery. The catch-up this summer will be strong, but demand will then be impacted by second-round effects’
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Features
Briefing: The unbearable lightness of investing
Open the newspaper. Any newspaper. Read the front page and then the money pages. Absorb, assimilate, repeat. After half a dozen goes, a pattern is clear.
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Opinion PiecesGrowing debt levels spell trouble
Credit investors would be wise to reflect upon the growing debt burden weighing on the global economy.
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Special ReportInvestment services: CSDR's long and winding road
A new settlement regulation for central securities depositories has been delayed amid industry concerns and lack of clarity
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Asset Class ReportsCredit: Interest grows in Chinese bonds
Foreign investors are finding Chinese government bonds increasingly attractive
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Country ReportItaly's recovery: Endless opportunities for pension funds
Italian pension funds are primed to participate in Italy’s post-COVID-19 recovery
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FeaturesThe Renminbi: A matter of trust
Only a few years ago, there was much hype about the renminbi becoming the next significant reserve currency and potentially even threatening the dominance of the dollar.
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Opinion PiecesAGMs: Setting new ESG standards
As the AGM season comes to an end for another year, it is worth reflecting upon the high pressure that company boards are facing from investors to take greater account of environmental impact, diversity and executive pay – only a few issues from a long list of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria that most investors now seem to abide by.
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Special Report
Investment services: Blending your benchmarks
New conditions are demanding a more sophisticated approach to benchmark blends
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: PGGM - A partnership approach
PGGM has taken its credit-risk-sharing strategy a step further by forging a partnership with Sweden’s Alecta
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Country ReportItaly: Funds go private
Italy’s institutional investors have kept their focus on private markets during the COVID-19 crisis
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FeaturesHedge funds: ‘Real life’ portfolio evaluation
Outlining an equal volatility-adjusted approach to hedge fund management
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Country ReportItaly: IORP II in limbo
The EU’s IORP II directive has yet to be fully implemented by Italian pension funds
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FeaturesInvestment Strategy: Towards sustainable portfolio theory
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1990 Nobel prize in Economics given to Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe and Merton Miller. IPE is marking this in several ways. The first event took place at the IPE annual conference in Copenhagen in December 2019, with a panel discussion following on from the showing of a delightful video. The video was based on a few days that TOBAM CEO Yves Choueifaty and I spent with Markowitz in his office in San Diego in June of that year and showed Markowitz’s charm and humility despite his great achievements.
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FeaturesLong term matters: Risk calls for universal investors
I’m looking for a senior executive from a major institutional investor who has “systemic risk” in their job description.
