All IPE articles in April 2016 (Magazine)
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Special Report
Railways Pension Scheme: World-class transformation
Gail Moss investigates how the UK Railways Pension Scheme transformed its investment strategies to cope with the low-return environment that has followed the global financial crisis
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Features
Negative rates are truly negative
It is instructive to remember that only a few years ago it was common for negative interest rates to be dismissed as impossible.
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Features
How we run our money: Industriens Pension
Laila Mortensen, CEO of Denmark’s Industriens Pension, tells IPE about her efforts to improve the fund’s main pension product
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Special Report
Talking heads
IPE asked pension consultants across Europe for their views on how existing and new regulation is affecting their clients and how they are advising them to react
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Heribert Karch, MetallRente
A few months ago, if someone had asked me to tell them about Deutschland-Rente (Germany-pension), I would have attempted to explain our state pension system to them
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Country Report
Investment Tax Reform: A simplification gone wrong
The investment industry has successfully lobbied against many new requirements in the investment tax reform law. Barbara Ottawa says it might not be so fortunate in the future
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Country Report
Pensions in Germany: The joys of negative rates
German pension investors are boxed in. With the prospect of negative 10-year Bund yields, they are forced to expand their fixed-income exposure
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Special Report
Factor Investing: Navigating the factor maze
IPE’s deputy editor Daniel Ben-Ami remembers the first time he heard the term ‘factor investing’. Although the subject seemed new in some respects, in other ways it was strangely familiar
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Special Report
Factor investing: Pension funds in two minds
Factor investing might be a relatively new approach but some pension funds are already employing it with success. Others are looking on with interest
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Asset Class Reports
European pharma under threat
Pharmaceuticals have long been the foundation of Europe’s industrial base. Now the sector must fight back against the threat of US biotech companies
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Features
ESG: Investment in society
Jonathan Williams reports on niche bonds that are growing in prominence as they move into areas previously filled by charities and the government
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of selected European equity funds to macro factors
The data shows the sensitivity of European equity funds to changes in a selection of macroeconomic factors: European default spreads, European term spreads, European interest rates and European inflation.
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Asset Class Reports
Implementation: Points of entry
Investors have several ways of accessing European equities including passive, active and smart-beta strategies
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: The Yale effect
Good things come in small packages. It sounds so true reading the latest annual National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) Commonfund study of endowment performance.
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Features
Dutch Funding: Facing a painful squeeze
Dutch pension funds’ nose-diving coverage ratios underline just how futile various measure have been in improving funding and minimise rights cuts
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Asset Class Reports
Equity markets slow down
The European equity market has surged in market capitalistion since 2009, but not necessarily because company earnings have increased.
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Special Report
Investment Options: Deciding factors
Investors looking to enter the world of factor investing are faced with an array of products from simpler beta strategies to actively managed quant funds
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Features
Cross-Border Pensions: Dutch in first Malta DC set-up
Plegt-Vos is the first Dutch company to relocate a defined contribution plan to Malta.Maarten van Wijk reports
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Country Report
Corporate Pensions: A shift in risk perception
Corporate pension schemes need to change the status quo in terms of governance and implementation if they are to meet their goals, writes Nigel Cresswell
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Features
Investment: Convex protection
With record-low corporate spreads and volatile equity markets, is it time to take a closer look at convertible bonds?