All IPE articles in April 2016 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Special Report
Special Report: Consultants under scrutiny
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is carrying out a comprehensive review of the asset management industry, which reaches to the heart of investment consultants’ business models
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Special Report
The French quant connection
Brendan Maton explores the pre-eminence of engineering in French elite education and the extent of its success in application in asset management
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Features
Focus Group: Risk-factor investing concepts
Just over half of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group currently allocate assets to strategies that employ risk-factor investing concepts
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: A climate culture clash
The Netherlands and the US are both free-market countries with thriving financial industries. But they also are very different and this is an unrecognised risk for large US mutual fund managers.
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Features
UK Local Government Pensions: Choose your partner
After years of debate, concrete details regarding the future of the UK local authority pensions sector are emerging
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Country Report
Interview: Karl Timmel CEO, VBV
Karl Timmel, CEO of Austria’s largest Pensionskasse, VBV, helped to set up the second pillar in the country more than two decades ago
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Features
The ceiling has no fans
The International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (IFRIC) has proposed potentially far-reaching changes to its asset-ceiling guidance. The proposals have their fair share of critics
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Features
CEE equities – Middle ground promise
David Turner assesses why Central and Eastern European equities are catching the eye of many investors
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Special Report
Portfolio Construction: Calculated risks
Factor investing promises to outperform both passive and active management. Carlo Svaluto Moreolo discusses the issue of implementation
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Asset Class Reports
Heading for the Brexit?
The possibility of the UK voting to leave the EU is causing considerable uncertainty among asset managers
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Features
Breaking Germany’s mould
Federal civil servants at two government ministries are searching for a workable policy to promote occupational pensions
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Muddy boots on
We pension funds at least have the luxury of not being stuck behind our screens all the time, trading or monitoring our portfolio
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Features
Commodity Prices: If only we could blame China
Niels Jensen argues that the strong dollar and rising debt levels among emerging market corporates bear some of responsibility for the slump in global commodity prices
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Special Report
Pioneers: Better be smart
Lynn Strongin Dodds finds that as the strategy becomes more popular, pioneers in the alternative-indexation field are warning investors to avoid being just performance chasers
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Special Report
Origins of the smart beta species
Andrew Clare, Stephen Thomas and Nick Motson trace the roots of smart beta that began as a test of the Efficient Market Hypothesis in universities in the 1970s
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Special Report
At the core of smart beta
Charlotte Moore attempts to pin down the characteristics at the heart of factor investing
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Special Report
Index Providers: Benchmark bonanza
The rapid growth and popularity of new of multi-factor smart beta strategies are fuelling the creation of a plethora of indices
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Beefing up the CMU
Inadequacy of European national court systems in the financial sphere is due for overhaul. Upgrade is necessary if the EU’s capital markets union programme (CMU) is going to get anywhere, according to a high-status paper
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Features
Banks and LDI
The rise of liability-driven investments (LDI), pairing cashflow-matching assets with forecast liability streams, has developed in tandem with a broad, overall maturing of the liabilities of the European occupational pension sector
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Country Report
Pensions in Austria: Broadening the horizons
Like their international counterparts, Austrian Pensionskassen must find new sources of return. Barbara Ottawa reports on the potential opportunities
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