IPE Magazine
October 2012Analysis
Just who can you trust?
With anti-Europe sentiment running high, bailout fatigue widespread and austerity resentment reaching a fever pitch, the Dutch election of 12 September was widely seen as a bellwether ballot. For a...
01 Oct 2012
The Draghi put is no turning point for the euro 01 Oct 2012
Soft and hard factors 01 Oct 2012
Briefing
Squeezing out the last drops
Brendan Maton assesses the favourability of tax-transparent Dublin and Luxembourg pooled funds as a way to avoid being ensnared by US withholding tax
01 Oct 2012
Go with the flows 01 Oct 2012
If the euro breaks up 01 Oct 2012
Diary of An Investor
Feed the world
It is early September and there’s a chill in the air but the sun is shining. It seems that summer has come late in the Netherlands.
01 Oct 2012
ESG Reports
As safe as houses
The fixed index-linked cashflows provided by social housing and infrastructure investments can be attractive to investors comfortable with long-term investing, finds Nina Röhrbein
01 Oct 2012
Guest Viewpoint
Flavien Duval, Risk officer, Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management
Thousands of reports are produced and distributed to hundreds of people who don't know what they're supposed to do with them
01 Oct 2012
How We Run Our Money
Investing in solar and student loans
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Hans Wilhelm Korfmacher, managing director at WPV about the pension fund’s highly diversified investment strategy.
01 Oct 2012
Investing In...
Sovereign Bonds: Risk-free no longer
Joseph Mariathasan looks at how investors are adapting to the new world of sovereign bond risk
01 Oct 2012
Sovereign Bonds: The world’s shallowest cliff 01 Oct 2012
Sovereign Bonds: Denmark: an unlikely haven? 01 Oct 2012
Letter from Brussels
EU clears the decks
The Brussels legislative programme for the financial sector will be as frenetic as ever from now until early 2013. It is a race to achieve as much as possible before electoral canvassing by MEPs...
01 Oct 2012
Letter from the US
LIBOR litigation looms
US pension funds are still trying to understand the impact of the LIBOR scandal on their assets to assess whether they should launch a class action against the banks involved in the case. The matter...
01 Oct 2012
Long-term Matters
Long-term Matters: Kay - make your voice heard
The Kay review is the best thing we’ve had on short-termism for decades. It’s the nail in the coffin of the debate about whether there is short-termism and if investors contribute. The UK business...
01 Oct 2012
Off The Record
A crisis of confidence and trust
Half of the respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey thought that quantitative easing (QE) and outright monetary transactions (OMT) were effective as emergency monetary policy measures in...
01 Oct 2012
On The Record
Govvies in decline
What is your strategy in developed market sovereign bonds?
01 Oct 2012
Pensions Accounting
A man on the moon? Easy
IFRIC Draft Interpretation D9, Employee Benefit Plans with a Promised Return on Contributions or Notional Contributions, refuses to die. And breathing fresh life into pension accounting’s very own...
01 Oct 2012
Pensions In
Spain: Crisis philosophy
Gail Moss finds that Spanish pension funds are confident about their ability to weather the storms of financial and economic turmoil
01 Oct 2012
Spain:Looking ahead 01 Oct 2012
Portugal: Serious challenges 01 Oct 2012
Special Reports
German Asset Management: End of the KAG
A new draft law proposes placing KAGs under a new framework, writes Till Entzian. The industry’s challenge will be to retain the identity and reputation of the Spezialfonds
01 Oct 2012
German Asset Management: Risky bond business 01 Oct 2012
Fiduciary Management: Trust and mistrust 01 Oct 2012
Strategically Speaking
Life on planet TOBAM
Quantitative asset managers aren’t particularly noted for prioritising ESG matters.
01 Oct 2012
