All IPE articles in September 2014 (Magazine)

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  • Features

    Teenage years

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Fiona Reynolds faced a protest storm soon after coming on board at PRI as executive director. Jonathan Williams caught up with her 18 months into her job

  • Features

    The shore will turn the ship

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    After five years of intense negotiations and acrimonious disputes, the Dutch have finally settled on a new financial framework (FTK), expected to take effect, at least in part, as of January 2015.

  • Country Report

    Risk off

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Carlo Svaluto Moreolo looks at the supply and demand issues shaping the pension de-risking market

  • Special Report

    Special Report - Securities Services: In transition

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    The transition management industry has had its knuckles rapped by regulators over recent months. But as Emma Cusworth reports, clients have an obligation to understand the service thoroughly, too

  • Special Report

    Special Report - Securities Services: Without a TRACE

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Lorraine White urges governments and pension funds to adopt the OECD’s Tax Relief and Compliance Enhancement system (TRACE), in order to introduce a more efficient relief-at-source model to international withholding tax

  • Special Report

    Special Report - Securities Services: Strained relations

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    A wave of regulation is putting pressure on custodians’ resources across the board – including client relations. Iain Morse notes that R&M’s latest annual Global Custody survey found an unprecedented decline in client satisfaction, with the burden of meeting regulatory requirements seen as the main reason

  • Special Report

    Special Report - Securities Services: Reporting progress

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    While most counterparties have managed to submit their OTC trades to authorised repositories under new reporting rules, Susan Hinko and David White note that it remains unclear who has traded with whom

  • Features

    Risk-sharing professionals

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Gail Moss compares how self-employed professionals are served by specialist collective DC pension funds in three European countries

  • Features

    Pension pot pitfalls

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Like compulsory voting, compulsory pensions have not taken off to a great extent: Australia practices both, Switzerland has had mandatory supplementary pensions since the 1980s, and pensions are compulsory for most workers through collective labour agreements in the Netherlands.

  • Special Report

    Special Report - Securities Services: The optimisation opportunity

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Collateral optimisation presents an opportunity for the buy-side to take advantage of the collateral shortfall, says Matthieu Baudoin

  • Features

    Miracle redux?

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Investors are hoping Mexico’s reforms spark another growth surge. As Christopher O’Dea reports, the best play may be in the local bond market

  • Special Report

    Special Report - Securities Services: Minority report

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    As deadlines for mandatory reporting of OTC derivative trades under EU rules pass, Daniel Ben-Ami finds a fair amount of confusion and evidence of non-compliance

  • Features

    Russia in the limelight

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    With or without the situation in Ukraine, the shooting down of flight MH17 and international sanctions, the economic outlook for Russia is questionable. We asked two respected observers whether pension funds should pull out

  • Country Report

    Ten years of LDI

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Barry Jones wonders how many people in 2004 would have thought investments would be the single biggest investment exposure for UK schemes by 2014

  • Features

    No place like homes

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Christophe Caspar looks into whether or not European housing is a safe home for fixed income investors

  • Country Report

    A national rule for local funds

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Taha Lokhandwala looks at radical proposals to reform local government pension investment in England and Wales

  • Country Report

    Implications of FTK

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Dennis van Eck outlines the changes contained within the new Dutch FTK and the effect they will have upon pension funds

  • Interviews

    Nobody's fool

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Strategically Speaking - Greenlight Capital

  • Features

    Focus Group: Political risk versus reward

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    Unsurprisingly for anyone who has caught a news broadcast during 2014, 20 of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group think that political risk has increased over the past 12 months, with the five remaining funds saying it has stayed about the same. None feels that it has decreased.

  • Country Report

    Focus on the future

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    What should be the focus of the national pensions dialogue? IPE asked leading figures where the discussions should go