All IPE articles in April 2022 (Magazine)
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FeaturesAccounting: IASB grapples with IAS 19
The staff could hardly have been more blunt: “Overall, we received mixed feedback on our IAS 19 [International Accounting Standard 19] proposal,” they told the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in March. The proposal in question is a March 2021 exposure draft in which the IASB trialled a new approach to disclosure by focusing on objectives aimed at teasing out relevant information.
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Country ReportCountry Report – Pensions in Germany & Austria (April 2022)
It took just over 100 days in office before Germany’s new coalition government announced a €500bn budget to first pillar pension financing, setting in motion an agreed reform process that would create a partially funded state pension system.
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Features
Qontigo Riskwatch: April 2022
* Data as of 28 February 2022. Forecast risk estimate for each index measured by the respective US, World and Emerging Markets Qontigo model variants
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IPE Quest Expectations Indicator commentary April 2022
With a threat of nuclear war looming, Russia increasingly looking exhausted and desperate but unwilling to make concessions and a Russian default threatening, the world is again as dangerous as it was during the cold war. A default now cannot be compared with Russia’s de facto default in 1998.
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Opinion PiecesLetter from Australia: Trustee accountability in focus
Despite having billions of assets under management, Australia’s superannuation funds have share capital ranging from as little as A$12 (€7.9) to A$100 (€66.2).
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Opinion PiecesUK's pension dashboard project should prioritise accuracy over simplification
The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consultation on the draft Pensions Dashboards Regulations 2022 closed last month. The DWP now aims to lay the regulations before parliament for debate later in the year.
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InterviewsFast and slow: Finland’s Veritas makes new additions to the portfolio construction toolbox
Kari Vatanen, chief investment officer of Finnish pensions insurer Veritas, tells Pirkko Juntunen about his views on diversification in a world where fundamentals are no longer the driver
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FeaturesDefining the precise scale advantages for DB pension funds
Most people working in the institutional asset management space have an intuitive understanding that the size of the institution, measured by total assets under management (AUM), has an impact on performance – that bigger funds tend to perform slightly better. On the other hand, there are plenty of stories of successful hedge funds that got too large and lost their way, unable to continue delivering on past success due to their size. So which is it? Do larger institutional investors outperform their smaller kin, or is AUM the proverbial millstone in terms of performance?
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: The future looks bright for African private equity
The Russian-Ukrainian war and its related global impact may have a mixed effect on economic recovery in Africa, which is being driven by worldwide economic trends such as elevated commodity prices, a relaxation of lockdowns, and increased global trade. With further increases in commodity prices having a positive impact, increased inflation and further possible roll-backs in globalisation weigh on the recovery.
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FeaturesUkraine & Russia: Asset allocation and investing in a time of war
It is a well-known fact that geopolitical events have no lasting impact on financial markets. However, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to wage war on Ukraine has forced institutional investors to reassess their strategies. While stock market indices tend to recover fairly soon after the initial shock of a geopolitical event, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has potentially wide-ranging consequences beyond a sudden spike in volatility.
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Asset Class ReportsCredit: Anthropocene fixed income
Former credit portfolio manager Ulf Erlandsson is on a mission to shake up the bond markets’ climate-change credentials
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Special ReportManager selection: Asset management operations under scrutiny
The role of outsourced operational due diligence on asset managers is becoming more prominent
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Country ReportAustria: Political instability slows pension reform
The government continues to drag its feet on the comprehensive overhaul of second-pillar pensions
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: EU raises the green bond stakes
The EU is considering making its Green Bond Standard mandatory
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The case for an EU consolidated tape
Liquidity. Equality. Fragility. With apologies to the French Republic, these three words almost act as a lodestone in discussions about a consolidated tape (CT) for EU securities. The need for such a tape is becoming more apparent than ever, but it could still be three years or so before it become a reality, according to Susan Yavari, regulatory policy adviser at the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the author of a detailed official position paper on the subject published in mid-February.
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Asset Class ReportsCredit: Investors cautious over Ukraine war
Despite geopolitical tensions, inflation and rising costs, private debt market remains optimistic after a record 2021
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FeaturesStrategically speaking interview: Redwheel’s new CEO
Last August, RWC Partner’s chief executive Dan Mannix left the company, and the head of business development, Tord Stallvik took over. Soon afterwards, the company rebranded as Redwheel – RWC was an acronym for Red Wheel Capital.
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FeaturesLonger lives lead to numerous societal challenges
“Demographics is the single most important factor that nobody pays attention to, and when they do pay attention, they miss the point,” management and pensions guru Peter Drucker once declared. The key issue is not only that people are living much longer, but that fertility rates are below the population replacement rate of 2.1 children per female everywhere in the world apart from Africa.
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: The fault with the default setting for COVID mortality in standard tables
The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) is a subsidiary company of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) in the UK. The CMI has a long history of providing high-quality and impartial analysis on mortality and morbidity. It is mainly focused on gathering data to produce standard mortality tables across various sub-populations of interest to actuaries, including term assurances, annuitants and pension schemes.
