IPE Magazine
May 2012Analysis
Like father, like son
Whenever my four-year-old boy asks me how old I am and I tell him the truth, I am invariably met with a look of horror that anyone, anywhere, could ever be that old. His incredulous, somewhat...
01 May 2012
QE – like pensions – isn’t just an over-60s issue 01 May 2012
Efficiency drive 01 May 2012
Briefing
Keeping tabs on the costs
Pension funds and trustees need to know exactly what different DC pension providers are charging so they can compare them against each other. Gail Moss reports
01 May 2012
Private assets on public markets 01 May 2012
Small is beautiful 01 May 2012
Diary of An Investor
Retirement questions
Here in the Netherlands we like to hold a special event for our colleagues when they retire. And there is usually something extra special when someone senior takes their pension. So when Klaas, the...
01 May 2012
ESG Reports
Moves in microfinance
Despite suffering some negative perceptions, the asset class is cleaning up its act and gaining new fans, says Nina Röhrbein
01 May 2012
Guest Viewpoint
Jeroen Wilbrink & Jelle Beenen
In the Guest Viewpoint column of IPE March 2012, Kees Cools and Anton van Nunen claimed that the current calculation used in assessing the health of a pension scheme is incorrect. They also claimed...
01 May 2012
How We Run Our Money
Northern lights
Iceland’s Frjalsi is starting to feel the effects of economic recovery but capital controls weigh heavily over its investment policy. Nina Röhrbein spoke with Arnaldur Loftsson and Marinó Tryggvason
01 May 2012
Investing In...
Private Equity: Escaping the crowd
Overview Supplying the mid-market Joseph Mariathasan finds a changing environment altering how established managers approach the market – which in turn alters the market itself
01 May 2012
Private Equity: ‘If you can’t meet demand, you’re finished’ 01 May 2012
Private Equity: Pioneering spirit 01 May 2012
Letter from Brussels
EC backing for VC
Radical changes in opportunities to invest in venture capital (VC) are emerging via the EU, including in Brussels, where the European Parliament is now vetting a draft Regulation on European Venture...
01 May 2012
Letter from the US
Politics of change
The nomination of Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate to the White House may bring a lot of attention to the US pension fund industry. If he wins the election on 6 November, he could introduce a...
01 May 2012
Long-term Matters
Long-term Matters: RI talk wastes time
The time and money spent on long-term, responsible investing has not been very productive. Don’t get me wrong – we’ve made important progress and our common-sense approach to change was the right...
01 May 2012
Off The Record
Risky business
Twenty-seven respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey used liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies. On average, 63% of their liability risk was currently hedged.
01 May 2012
On The Record
What is your private equity strategy?
The highs and lows of private equity
01 May 2012
Pensions Accounting
Garbage in, garbage out
If you work in accountancy you will have been far too busy since 2009 with the chaos created by David Tweedie out of the International Accounting Standards Board’s workplan to worry too much about...
01 May 2012
Pensions In
France: Pensions on the move
With no domestic IORP-compatible regime and with Solvency II looming, two of France’s supplementary pension providers are looking to move their domicile. Cécile Sourbes assesses the pros and cons of...
01 May 2012
France: Hope beyond the figures 01 May 2012
France: On track for change 01 May 2012
Securities Services
All change
Iain Morse finds that the creation of a single, mandatory central settlement depositary later this year will have wide-ranging effects on the trading and settlement of securities in Russia
01 May 2012
Special Reports
Liability-Driven Investing: Best foot forward
As short rates collapsed and curves steepened over the past three years, pension funds have become more attuned to forward rates when deciding to de-risk or to take active risk with their LDI...
01 May 2012
Liability-Driven Investing:Making the trend your friend 01 May 2012
Liability-Driven Investing: Enhancing returns while managing risk 01 May 2012
Strategically Speaking
Making an impact on SMEs
The conviction articulated on its website – ‘We believe that market forces and entrepreneurship can be harnessed to do well by doing good’ – hardly distinguishes the £275m (€333m) London-based...
01 May 2012
A new titan in Asian equities 01 May 2012
