All IPE articles in November 2013 (Magazine)
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Special Report
Stress-testing the water
Nina Röhrbein investigates water-related investment opportunities, which are now starting to attract institutional investors
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Features
The search for yield
Managers believe that high-yield bonds still offer up plenty of opportunities, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Unity is strength
Rachel Fixsen charts the ongoing trend towards consolidation in the Danish pension market
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Country Report
Nordic Region: A thematic search for yield
Casper Hammerich outlines key findings on asset allocation from the eighth Nordic Investor Survey
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Features
Time to get together?
In an ideal world, pension fund mergers create advantageous economies of investment and administration scale that benefit members, pensioners and sponsors long term. In the real world, pension funds are complicated to merge, not least because social partners often demand that everyone has a seat around the board table.
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Features
Funds to increase infrastructure investment
Nearly two-thirds of pension funds and other institutional investors expect their allocations to infrastructure to increase over the next 18 months, according to a survey by IPE and Stirling Capital Partners.
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Fine-tuned for yield
Reeta Paakkinen assesses Ilmarinen’s recent changes to its asset allocation
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Country Report
Nordic Region: High salary, high fees
Well-paid Swedes face high charges if they opt out of the ITP pension system in favour of a private plan, finds Rachel Fixsen
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Winners and losers
European equities are not only about to benefit from some catch-up in the profitability stakes.
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Value gets volatile
Diverging 2013 performance shows Martin Steward that injecting cyclicality and value has increased volatility and downside
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Features
Focus Group: Equities falling out of favour
The average equity allocation in the portfolios of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey is around 36.7%, down from just over 40% 10 years ago.
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Features
Spotlight on money doctors
Holding investment consultants to account is a healthy exercise. And indeed, one recent study on investment consultants’ recommendations has attracted headlines and controversy.
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Features
Denmark narrowly retains global supremacy
Denmark’s pensions supremacy was once again confirmed in October with the publication of the fifth annual Melbourne Mercer Global Pension index.
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Special Report
Currency Management: Taming the FX volatility dragons
Even before the money set aside to pay back the US’s debts threatened to run out at the end of October
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Special Report
Currency Management: Keep your FX hedge options
The environment since 2008 makes the case for dynamic hedging.
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Special Report
Currency Management: Side effects of short duration
The key active currency strategies of carry and momentum come into their own in a rising-interest-rate environment with greater dispersion of interest rate differentials.
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Features
State of flux continues for Dutch
With the recent announcement of proposals for a “middle way”, Jetta Klijnsma, state secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs, seemed to have turned the corner in the ongoing debate over the revised financial assessment framework (FTK). The pensions sector has now shown a broad consensus about the new direction.
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Country Report
Nordic Region: The search continues
Reeta Paakkinen finds Finnish pension investors continuing to seek alternatives to traditional equities and fixed income
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Features
Communications go digital
The pensions industry is one of the worst at understanding its customers, which is one reason why two providers have developed innovative online tools, writes Nina Röhrbein
