Latest Special Reports – Page 86
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Longevity: Time to get the tradesmen in
With buyout deals and pipelines buoyant as more DB schemes close to future accrual and sponsors bite the cost bullet, Pádraig Floyd asks whether the short trend for ‘DIY’ has already run its course
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Special Report – ETF Roundtable
IPA’s ETF Roundtable was held in Hong Kong and featured:
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Special Report – ETFs in China
Orlando Bowie looks at the growth trends of exchange-traded funds in China.
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Special Report – Asian Private Equity
Conditions underfoot are heavy for private equity investors, both in China and elsewhere in Asia, writes Simon Osborne.
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Room for improvement
A new survey reveals that the Dutch private equity sector has yet to fully integrate sustainability, as Nina Röhrbein reports
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Insurance-Linked Investments: Herding cats... and other insurance-linked risks
It is not always easy to tell what someone means when they talk about ‘insurance-linked investments’ – but distinctions are imperative because the various components of this complex market present very different risk and return profiles.
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Insurance-Linked Investments:Integrating catastrophe risk
Reinsurance risk is clearly diversifying against pension funds’ core financial market risks. But Martin Steward writes on the importance of defining objectives beyond simple diversification when investing in this asset class
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Insurance-Linked Investments: AQR Re: where quakes meet quants
Martin Steward met the reinsurance team established by quantitative asset manager AQR Capital Management
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Insurance-Linked Investments: Consider your options
Options strategies offer premiums for insuring against financial market risks. Joseph Mariathasan looks at strategies that attempt to collect these while protecting against the worst of the tail risks
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Special ReportInsurance-Linked Investments: Berkshire’s leverage
Andrea Frazzini, David Kabiller and Lasse H Pedersen unpick Warren Buffett’s business model and find a low-beta quality portfolio leveraged with an insurance float and derivatives
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Insurance-Linked Investments: Appetite for catastrophe
Investors cannot get enough of the catastrophe bond market, writes Charlotte Moore, but the potential for equilibrium, albeit at lower returns, is there
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Insurance-Linked Investments: Doctor in the house?
Lynn Strongin Dodds outlines the importance of quality medical underwriting and ongoing assessment of life expectancies in the traded life policy world
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Disarming pension funds
Nina Röhrbein finds investors staring down the barrel of a gun when it comes to their investments in controversial weapons
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Europe's Pension Consultants: The long game
The static long-term assumptions of past consulting methodologies are no longer fit for purpose. But Brendan Maton finds that developing new approaches is a tough intellectual and practical challenge
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Talking heads
IPE put some questions to pension consultants and fiduciary managers across Europe. Here is a selection of their views
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Filling the M&A gap
The high margins available from corporate activities appear to be a thing of the past, but Gerry O’Kane finds consultants benefiting instead from the increasing complexity of the pensions landscape
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Europe's Pension Consultants: How competent are consultants?
Trustees would never hire an unqualified actuary or lawyer. But Roger Brown warns that closer scrutiny might reveal that they are taking advice from an unqualified investment consultant
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Green listings
Nina Röhrbein reports on how stock exchanges apply pressure on their listed companies to be more sustainable
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Pricing climate change
The physical and regulatory risks from climate change already exist. But Nina Röhrbein finds that the pricing signals remain suppressed by still-evolving regulatory frameworks and a lack of data
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: The seven-step programme
There is a clear route to making sure your portfolio is ‘future-proofed’ against climate change rather than a contributor to it, argues Raj Thamotheram. But, so far, very few investors are on it
