All quantitative easing articles
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Special ReportProspects 2023: Asset management roundtable
The past year was one of the most challenging ever for institutional investors. Here, asset allocators and others assess the current and future risks to portfolios and identify the opportunities in an environment that remains highly uncertain
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Special ReportSpecial Report – Prospects 2023
The past year will be remembered as one of the most challenging for institutional investors ever. The outlook for 2023 is brighter, if anything because valuations of major asset classes have come back to historical levels.
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: The tipping point for UK pension schemes
Schemes need to consider how to get to a secure level of funding, but also, the assets they will need to hold when they reach peak cashflows in order to remain fully funded
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Opinion PiecesCOVID is not everything
For understandable reasons it has become commonplace to talk about the immense damage done by COVID-19. This probably makes sense as a kind of shorthand. However, careful reflection on the painful experience of recent months should show it is a one-sided way of understanding the pandemic’s devastating impact.
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NewsECB discloses fresh stimulus amid COVID-19 pandemic
Lack of explicit commitment from the bank to do ‘whatever it takes’
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NewsFresh QE likely to boost corporate bonds, say managers
Mario Draghi’s final appearance as ECB president bought a 10-basis-point rate cut and open-ended quantitative easing
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NewsJoseph Mariathasan: The quantitative tsunami retreats
Is the tidal wave of QE-driven liquidity about to reduce? And can emerging markets return to winning ways?
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News2019 Outlook: Preparing for the downside, part 2
IPE analyses fixed income outlooks from JP Morgan Asset Management, Janus Henderson, Fidelity, and Pictet
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NewsChart of the Week: ECB to end QE-fuelled balance sheet expansion
European Central Bank will maintain the size of its balance sheet – estimated at €4.7trn – at least until it can raise rates
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NewsIPE Expectations Indicator: Positive euro-zone equity sentiment fades
There was a negative to positive shift in sentiment towards dollar bonds
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NewsWhy quantitative tightening won’t happen
Asset owners and economists argue that the UK central bank will struggle to ‘normalise’ its balance sheet any time soon
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NewsCredit benchmarks too sensitive to interest rates, investors warn
Credit risk and duration management among the top priorities for Austrian pension funds
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NewsEuro and equity rallies boost Belgian pension funds to 6% in 2017
PensioPlus warns on withdrawal of quantitative easing, equity market volatility and higher inflation
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NewsJoseph Mariathasan: Quantitative tightening's biggest test
The wider political effects of unconventional monetary policy could prove the hardest to resolve
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NewsECB seen as tapering, as 'nuanced' bond-buying decision announced
Bank to continue to buy bonds under asset purchase programme after March but at reduced run-rate
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NewsInvestors could offer bonds at negative yields in future BoE auctions
UK central bank succeeds in medium-term Gilt buying after pension funds withhold long bonds
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NewsPLSA calls on UK pensions regulator as Gilt yields drop post-BoE
UK pensions association says regulator must take flexible approach to scheme funding
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NewsPension funds journeying into unknown like 'Christopher Columbus'
CREATE-Research CEO warns of ‘game-changing’ consequences of QE
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NewsECB: Low interest rate environment 'not our fault'
European Central Bank vice president argues no asset price bubble developing in Europe, despite low yield environment
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NewsAPK calls for ‘scenario testing' over traditional valuation methods
Christian Böhm says QE making traditional valuation difficult, calls for assets to be evaluated for ‘sensitivity’ to scenarios
