IPE Magazine
January 2012Analysis
Where East meets West
The Iron Curtain came down more than two decades ago. With the eastern expansion of the European Union that followed, especially in this time of rapid globalisation, one might have thought that all...
03 Jan 2012
Another fine mess 03 Jan 2012
At odds 03 Jan 2012
Briefing
Find the right provider
Gail Moss outlines how pension funds should manage the tender process to ensure they appoint the right providers
03 Jan 2012
Fears about Solvency II 03 Jan 2012
Austria can learn from Denmark 03 Jan 2012
Diary of An Investor
Sinterklaas
Before Christmas, we at Wasserdicht Pension Funds took a call from a research company. They were visiting Dutch pension funds, they said, to carry out a study of attitudes among institutional...
03 Jan 2012
ESG Reports
Off the starting blocks
Across central and eastern Europe, the extent to which countries have launched themselves off the ESG starting blocks varies greatly. Nina Röhrbein reports
03 Jan 2012
Great expectations 03 Jan 2012
CO2 on file 03 Jan 2012
Guest Viewpoint
Liz Murrall & Jonathan Lipkin, Investment Management Association
Much has been written about investment managers churning stocks, to the detriment of client returns, investee companies and potentially the overall stability of the economy.
03 Jan 2012
How We Run Our Money
Shifting horizons
Timo Loyttyniemi, managing director of Valtion Eläkerahasto (VER), tells Martin Steward why the Finnish buffer fund’s sure touch through the crisis means that the latest change to its targets might...
03 Jan 2012
Investing In...
Emerging Market Equities: Tide of history
Emerging markets, and their trade relationships with one another and the rest of the world, are changing. Traditional investment frameworks are struggling to remain relevant, writes Joseph Mariathasan
03 Jan 2012
Emerging Market Equities: ‘Quality’ shines through 03 Jan 2012
Emerging Market Equities: The evolution of fundamentals 03 Jan 2012
Letter from the US
Hedge funds face clip
Hedge funds enjoyed record inflows in 2011 as new assets from US pension funds poured into their coffers. But it was also a horrible year for their performance and investors put a lot of pressure on...
03 Jan 2012
Off The Record
Fear of euro-zone break-up takes hold
Almost half of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey felt that the biggest credible threat to the global economy or financial markets in 2012 was the euro-zone break-up beginning to look...
03 Jan 2012
On The Record
Do you invest in frontier markets?
Has the time finally come for Africa's 'frontier markets'? Three pension funds share their views.
03 Jan 2012
Pensions Accounting
Updating the update
Our glorious G20 leaders have charged the IASB with two tasks in relation to financial instruments accounting: reduce the complexity of accounting standards for financial instruments; and strengthen...
03 Jan 2012
Pensions In
Central and Eastern Europe: Decimated
Hungary’s mandatory pension system is in tatters following last year’s nationalisation of the sector’s assets, writes Thomas Escritt
03 Jan 2012
Central and Eastern Europe: Post traumatic stress 03 Jan 2012
Central and Eastern Europe: An uncertain year 03 Jan 2012
Special Reports
Latin America: No more stereotypes
Having escaped the shackles of their stereotypes, Latin American countries today present to investors an attractive mix of low budget deficits, low public and private debt, and prudent monetary...
03 Jan 2012
Latin America:L’enfant terrible 03 Jan 2012
Latin America:Waking up from the Chilean nap 03 Jan 2012
Strategically Speaking
Geneva conventions
Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, the 215-year-old Geneva-based banking group,
is, of course, a family business. It is just happy coincidence that both the father and brother of Hubert Keller, who...
03 Jan 2012
Bringing the New World to the Old 03 Jan 2012
