All IPE articles in April 2015 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
Cashing out
This is the last leader column I will write for IPE, ending six years as its investment editor
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Kames Capital
Edinburgh-based Aegon Asset Management UK made a nod to its home city when it changed its name to Kames Capital in 2011
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Features
Diary of an Investor: The conference calls
Unlike my friend Eddie, I am not a devotee of the conference scene but I do enjoy a good debate, writes Pieter Mullen
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Features
Regulatory bottleneck
Perhaps the true long-lasting legacy of the 2008-09 financial crisis is a heightened focus on regulation. Although the crisis itself was not sparked by pension funds, they are all too affected by the new wave of rules generated by those events.
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Country Report
Spezialfonds: A boost for the sector
Hans-Jürgen Dannheisig and Clemens Schuerhoff assess drivers in the German Spezialfonds business and changes in the asset management industry
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Features
Corporate bonds for the long run
The post-crisis world of bond investing is favouring the ‘new’ old-fashioned approach known as buy-and-maintain credit
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Special Report
GDP-linked sovereign bonds: Would investors buy them?
Some emerging markets have experimented with GDP-linked sovereign borrowing, and the Greek finance minister is the latest to discuss the idea. We ask whether investors would buy it
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Special Report
'CoCos': bondholder's friends or foes?
There are complexities associated with banks’ contingent convertibles, or ’CoCos’, but this, combined with a more resilient, less systemically-linked industry, is a source of value
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Special Report
Convertible bond performance: Best of both worlds
The hybrid characteristics of convertible securities provide strategic benefits through economic cycles
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Country Report
Interview: Prof Bert Rürup - A critical view on policy
Barbara Ottawa asked pension figurehead Prof Bert Rürup about pension reforms past and future
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Uphill battle for CMU
There is enthusiasm for the EU’s capital market union (CMU) project. However, it faces prodigious obstacles in achieving its 2019 deadline.
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Asset Class Reports
High Yield: Oil, banks and rates
Martin Steward finds the diversity of high yield reflected in three very different kinds of risk run behind similar-looking headline exposures
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Features
Dutch Regulation: Dutch central bank bares its teeth
It certainly set tongues wagging in the Dutch pensions industry – De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the financial regulator, declared Joanne de Graaff, a professional trustee, “unfit” for duty
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Special Report
Investors warm up to bank contingent convertible bonds
Investors have grown in confidence with bank contingent convertible bonds as their confidence in bank stability has risen
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Features
Auto-protection: More than one way to skin a cat
This month, the UK defined contribution sector opens its doors to new freedoms
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Country Report
Occupational Pensions: Austria's unloved funds
Despite good long-term performance, few companies are making use of a multi-employer pension fund or indeed any form of occupational pension
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Country Report
Austrian Provident Funds: The pensions challenger
Mandatory contributions mean Austrian provident funds are catching up with Pensionskassen both as institutional investors and in terms of business strategy
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Features
Germany & Austria: Is choice an option for scheme members?
The ongoing shift towards DC pensions and increased member options results in a culture of inertia
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Special Report
Convertible bond valuations remain attractive
Subdued volatility has taken the options within convertible bonds down to very attractive valuations
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Heribert Karch - German occupational pensions association
Heribert Karch addresses whether the German goverment will be able to introduce the pure defined contribution schemes outlined in its recent pension reform proposals
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