All IPE articles in April 2024 (Magazine) – Page 2

  • Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
    Opinion Pieces

    A new era for pension fund liquidity management

    April 2024 (Magazine)

    With inflation past its peak and central banks signalling monetary easing, investors can look forward to a prolonged period when interest rates will be at normal levels – barring any surprise decline in economic growth or other kinds of shocks.

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    Features

    Measuring the impact of non financial factors on GDP growth

    April 2024 (Magazine)

    In their paper entitled Modeling the Links Between Economic Growth, Socio-economic Dynamics and Environmental Dimensions: a Panel VAR Approach, the authors attempt to quantify direct and indirect causalities between economic growth and extra-financial dimensions, including demographics, biodiversity, climate change, political stability, inequalities and economic growth. 

  • chris stevens
    Features

    Investors are paying for hedge funds' reluctance to use hurdle rates

    April 2024 (Magazine)

    Although two years have now passed since the US Federal Reserve started rapidly hiking interest rates, the likelihood that your hedge fund manager will have a ‘hurdle rate’ – a minimum rate of return before performance fees kick in – has not changed. Only a quarter of hedge funds, by our count, have such a threshold in place and the practice does not yet show signs of becoming more widespread, even though the risk-free rate has now exceeded 4% for well over a year.

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    Interviews

    Mercer’s Rich Nuzum: soft skills are the hardest in investment governance

    April 2024 (Magazine)

    Mercer’s recent acquisition of Vanguard’s outsourced chief investment officer (CIO) business and its sale of two administration units points to changes in asset management as firms continue to focus on core activities. 

  • Joseph Mariathasan
    Opinion Pieces

    A template for innovation and investment opportunity in health services

    April 2024 (Magazine)

    Introducing innovations into entrenched organisations is always a challenge. No more so than in the UK’s much loved, much criticised and, many would argue, barely functioning National Health Service (NHS). Yet revolutions in AI and technology should be able to transform the NHS for the better in a cost-effective manner. 

  • Options
    Special Report

    Manager selection: Solving the pension liquidity puzzle

    April 2024 (Magazine)

    Advisers and fiduciary managers are working as hard as ever to meet the liquidity needs of pension funds