Analysis & Opinion
We were all caught naked
03 Jun 2013
IPE hosted Stanford Business School’s Anat Admati this month, in town promoting The Bankers’ New Clothes, the well-received book she co-wrote with Martin Hellwig of the Max Planck Institute.
Unsubtle financial repression
03 Jun 2013
Dutch politicians are acutely aware of the size and importance of pension funds and want pension assets to be channelled back into the domestic economy.
The banker blame game
03 Jun 2013
As if pension funds and other institutional shareholders did not already have enough on their plates, the calls on them to engage more with companies have been increasing in volume over the last few...
Motherhood and apple pie
03 Jun 2013
Perhaps it should not be a too much of a surprise that 68% of Swiss people voted in a national referendum in March in favour of a motion against ‘rip-off’ executive salaries.
Waterford Crystal: shattered illusions of safety
03 Jun 2013
When famed manufacturer Waterford Crystal went into insolvency in 2009, it set in motion events that affected pension funds in Ireland and the UK. The Pension Protection Fund saved the UK scheme –...
Danish fund reverses stance on foreign equity
03 Jun 2013
Foreign listed equities are again being targeted by Denmark’s DKK600bn (€80.5bn) statutory pension fund ATP, having sold off all such holdings two years ago. Since then, the listed equities portfolio ...
Leave asset mix to pension funds
03 Jun 2013
Despite Kees van Dijkhuizen’s conclusion that there is support for increased involvement from Dutch institutional investors for financing residential mortgages through state-guaranteed bonds, the IMF ...
The vain search for harmony
03 Jun 2013
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) dropped something of a bombshell in early April with its preliminary results for the first quantitative impact study (QIS) on the...
The bankers’ new clothes … yet to be made
03 Jun 2013
Bankers have, in recent years, become the butt of many jokes and the scapegoats for all that went wrong in the financial crisis. Public anger over austerity measures is aimed at them, while most of...
Dimon’s status quo risks
03 Jun 2013
No one says star gazing is easy but let’s be brave. JP Morgan Chase (JPM) is a preventable surprise in the making. By the time you read this the current furore – regarding the potential splitting...
Hoogervorst decrees
03 Jun 2013
Unless you are an actuary, trustee or policy wonk, it is unlikely that the IASB’s conceptual framework project – the basis for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) – is high on your...
A long-term dream
03 Jun 2013
Philippe Maystadt, former Belgian finance minister and European Investment Bank (EIB) president, recently fleshed out the European Commission’s policy paper to promote long-term investment.
Fink’s nod to Australia
03 Jun 2013
Are mandatory saving accounts coming to the US? It looks possible after BlackRock chairman and CEO, Laurence Fink, said they should be part of a comprehensive solution to the retirement funding...
Transition management for China
03 Jun 2013
European politicians like to meet with Jin Liqun, chairman of the board of supervisors of China Investment Corporation. As a man with more than $400bn (€309.2bn) in assets for investment outside...
Peter Borgdorff, CEO, PFZW
03 Jun 2013
“When I think of the destination of this money, I think of the woman who cycles from house to house and cleans someone’s bottom”
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